Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (FinHub - Transfer)

Coinbase

Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Oakland, CA
Salary
$218,025–$256,500 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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Salary context

Above market

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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 34 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $186,065–$218,900 across 29 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (FinHub - Transfer)

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As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform FinHub Transfers team at Coinbase, you will own the technical strategy and architecture for systems that orchestrate crypto and fiat fund movements across various product groups including Retail, Prime, Exchange, International, Payments, and more. Your responsibilities include setting long-term technical direction, driving execution on complex cross-team initiatives, and elevating engineering quality through mentorship and design reviews. You will build high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems that process billions of dollars daily while maintaining auditability standards for financial infrastructure. The role requires 8+ years of experience in designing reliable distributed systems at scale, with a proven track record of architectural leadership and cross-team collaboration to deliver impactful solutions in the domain of ledgering, transfers, payments, or trading systems.

Skills

Python Java Kubernetes Docker AWS CI/CD PostgreSQL Redis RabbitMQ gRPC GraphQL REST JSON SQL NoSQL Git Jenkins Prometheus Grafana Kafka Zookeeper Consul Vault Terraform Ansible

What you'll do

  • Own the technical strategy and architecture for the Transfers platform, making critical design decisions on fund movement.
  • Drive execution of complex cross-team initiatives, building alignment with stakeholders to deliver scoped technical plans.
  • Build high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems processing billions in daily transaction volume.
  • Lead evolution of engineering processes and architectural patterns across the team through mentorship and reviews.
  • Translate business and regulatory requirements into platform capabilities for new fund movement corridors.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on designing fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Ownership of technical strategy and roadmap for platform or service area with significant organizational impact.
  • Proven ability to architect solutions for ambiguous cross-team problems and drive alignment across stakeholders.
  • Deep expertise in ledgering, transfers, payments, or trading systems processing high-volume financial transactions.
  • Track record of elevating team quality through mentorship, design reviews, and engineering process improvements.

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