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Salary: CAD 260,100 - 260,100 / annual
Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to define the technical vision for FinHub, the financial infrastructure platform powering account balances and money movement across trading, payments, financing, staking, and other financial products.
In this role, you will serve as the domain's senior-most technical individual contributor, responsible for architecting and evolving the ledger and money-movement systems that enable Coinbase to move funds with uncompromising correctness, security, reliability, and scale.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define and drive multi-quarter technical strategy for FinHub's ledger and money-movement platform, supporting new financial products and significant transaction volume growth
- Architect unified, reusable primitives across fiat and crypto fund flows, including 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, breaking complex problems into clear milestones, migration plans, and measurable outcomes
- Partner with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations teams 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
Required qualifications:
- 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 critical
- Proven expertise in distributed systems, consistency models, asynchronous workflows, and state machines, with strong backend programming in Go, Java, or Python
- Track record of driving multi-quarter technical strategy and leading complex architectural initiatives across multiple engineering teams without direct authority
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs and build alignment with executive, engineering, product, finance, and operations stakeholders
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs
Coinbase is a remote-first company with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges." The company emphasizes high performance, intense collaboration, and uncompromising standards.
