Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Financial Eng)

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems. Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be. While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported. About the Team: Financial Engineering builds Coinbase’s financial data and reporting foundations to enable accurate, timely, and auditable financial operations. The team partners closely with Finance, Accounting/Controllership, Treasury, and Product Engineering to ensure financial data is complete, reconciled, and traceable—supporting core workflows like month-end close, safeguarding, and reporting at scale. What you'll be doing: Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang. Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices. Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them. Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter. Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers. What we look for in you: 5+ years of software development experience with experience writing performant, large scale distributed systems Designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture. You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers. Ability to solve complex engineering problems that deliver results aligned with team objectives Ability to mentor junior developers and lead the team technically on new initiatives and system improvements You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together. Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality. Nice to haves: Experience with financial data, accounting systems, or high-precision transaction processing You have gone through a rapid growth in your company You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..) You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices. You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB. You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems. Job #: P76136 Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)). Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $186,065 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)