Senior Staff Software Engineer, Finhub
Coinbase · Remote - USA
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## Senior Staff Software Engineer, Finhub (Coinbase) Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? Coinbase is remote-first (remote-only isn’t the model). You can expect to meet quarterly for in-person working sessions called **“surges.”** As a **Senior Staff Software Engineer** on the **FinHub** team within the **Platform** Product Group, you’ll define the technical vision for the financial infrastructure that powers Coinbase. FinHub is the foundation for **account balances** and **money movement** across trading, payments, financing, staking, and other financial products. You’ll lead the evolution of the ledger and money-movement architecture with uncompromising **correctness, security, reliability, and scale**. ### What you’ll do - Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for FinHub’s ledger and money-movement platform, supporting new financial products, platforms, and significant growth in transaction volume. - Architect unified, reusable primitives across fiat and crypto fund flows (account balances, holds, settlements, postings, transfers, and transaction history). - Lead rearchitecture of distributed financial workflows and state transitions, enforcing standards for **double-entry accounting**, **idempotency**, **invariant enforcement**, **reconciliation**, **auditability**, and **safe failure recovery**. - Drive end-to-end design and rollout of large, cross-team initiatives—turning complex problems into clear milestones, migration plans, and measurable outcomes. - Partner with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align platform architecture with customer experience, regulatory obligations, and business priorities. - Provide deep technical mentorship to senior and staff engineers, raising the bar for system design, operational excellence, technical writing, and long-term maintainability across FinHub. ### Required Skills and Experience - **12+ years** of software engineering experience, including building and operating large-scale backend distributed systems in production. - Deep experience designing financial/payments/ledger/banking/trading (or other high-consequence transaction) systems where **correctness and auditability** are non-negotiable. - Proven expertise in distributed systems, consistency models, asynchronous workflows, and state machines; strong backend programming experience in **Go, Java, or Python**. - Experience driving multi-quarter technical strategy and leading complex architectural initiatives across multiple teams without relying on direct authority. - Ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly and build alignment with executive, engineering, product, finance, and operations stakeholders. - Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality. ### Pay Transparency (US) - **Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $253,895 – $298,700 USD** ### Notes - **Application limit:** Maximum of **3 applications within a 6-month period**. - Coinbase is an **Equal Opportunity Employer**. - **Accommodations:** If you need a reasonable accommodation, email **accommodations[at]coinbase.com**.
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