Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Coinbase

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Remote

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Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$218,025–$256,500 / yr
Posted
8 days ago
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This role pays more than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $198,900–$255,625 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $237k versus about $227k for comparable roles.

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About Coinbase

Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology

Coinbase currently has 94 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $191,250–$218,900 across 85 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Backend

As a Staff Software Engineer, Backend - FinHub (Transfers), you will join the Platform group to own the architectural direction of systems powering crypto and fiat fund movements. You will lead cross-functional engineering initiatives, drive platform reliability, and establish engineering standards for high-correctness financial systems. Your daily work involves designing distributed system structures, identifying scaling bottlenecks, and mentoring engineers on production services where financial integrity and auditability are non-negotiable. You will utilize backend programming languages including Go, Ruby, Python, or Java to build cloud-native architectures. The role focuses on the technical challenges of fund movement across Retail, Prime, Exchange, International, and Payments products, ensuring transaction integrity and idempotency within a high-scale distributed financial platform. You will also responsibly utilize generative AI to improve workflow efficiency.

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What you'll do

  • Own the technical architecture for fund movement systems across crypto and fiat rails.
  • Drive design decisions for distributed system structure, correctness guarantees, and scalability.
  • Lead complex, cross-team engineering initiatives to deliver new fund movement capabilities.
  • Evolve backend infrastructure using cloud-native patterns to proactively resolve scaling bottlenecks.
  • Establish engineering standards and architectural patterns to reduce operational risk in financial systems.
  • Mentor engineers on system design, distributed systems best practices, and production service reliability.
  • Translate complex distributed systems problems into clear architectural decisions and actionable roadmaps.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
  • Demonstrated experience owning architectural direction and making technical decisions for a team or domain's long-term trajectory.
  • Deep expertise in backend programming using Go, Ruby, Python, or Java.
  • Proven ability to design highly available, high-throughput, and cloud-native systems where correctness is critical.
  • Track record of delivering and scaling financial systems or fund movement platforms requiring transaction integrity and auditability.
  • Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and mentoring engineers on system design and distributed systems.
  • Ability to translate complex distributed systems problems into clear architectural decisions and actionable roadmaps.
  • Experience utilizing generative AI responsibly to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency.

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