Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for its Financial Engineering team. You will build the financial data and reporting foundations that enable accurate, timely, and auditable financial operations for the company.

What You'll Do

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're Looking For

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 Have

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.

Technical Stack

Golang
Ruby
Docker
Rails
Postgres
MongoDB
DynamoDB

Team & Environment

Partners closely with Finance, Accounting/Controllership, Treasury, and Product Engineering.

Benefits & Compensation

Salary range: $186,065—$218,900 USD.

Work Mode

This role follows a hybrid work model.

Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.