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Salary: USD 207,955 - 218,900 / annual
Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own backend systems powering secure fund movement across fiat, crypto, and internal ledgers for institutional clients. You will be part of the Settlements and Transfers team within the Institutional group, responsible for transaction processing, settlement, and asset transfer infrastructure that underpins the entire institutional platform.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, and scale backend services processing settlements and transfers across fiat, crypto, and internal ledger systems
- Drive code quality and maintainability through rigorous code reviews, refactoring, and active participation across the development lifecycle
- Lead performance and scalability improvements for critical financial infrastructure, including troubleshooting and resolving production issues
- Partner with product managers, engineering managers, and cross-functional teams to translate product vision into quarterly technical roadmaps
- Propose and implement architectural improvements to accelerate team velocity, reduce tech debt, and strengthen system reliability
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on technical best practices and professional growth
Coinbase is a remote-first company with quarterly in-person "surge" sessions for intensive collaboration. The environment is high-intensity and mission-driven, focused on increasing economic freedom through financial infrastructure.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, including designing, building, and maintaining production services at scale
- Production experience with Go (or similar backend language), relational data stores (Postgres or equivalent), and message-based architectures (Kafka or equivalent)
- Demonstrated ability to own system design decisions, lead technical proposals, and drive alignment across a team of engineers
- Track record of identifying and resolving quality, performance, and scalability issues in distributed systems
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a culture of high code quality through thorough reviews, testing, and documentation
- Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
