Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Financial Eng) at Coinbase — Remote North America

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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)).

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Financial Eng)

What you'll be doing:

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