Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (FinHub - Transfer)
CoinbaseReady to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the FinHub Transfers team within the Platform organization. Transfers is the nerve center of crypto and fiat fund movements at Coinbase, orchestrating routing and settlement across Retail, Prime, Exchange, International, and Payments product groups through one of the most scalable distributed financial systems in the world. You'll own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for this infrastructure, drive execution on complex cross-team initiatives, and elevate engineering quality across the team while maintaining high-volume individual output.
What you'll do:
- Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Transfers platform, making key design decisions on fund movement orchestration, routing, and reliability across crypto and fiat rails.
- Drive cross-team initiatives spanning multiple product groups (Retail, Prime, Exchange, Payments, International), building alignment with stakeholders and turning ambiguous requirements into scoped technical plans.
- Build and scale high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems that process billions of dollars in daily transaction volume with the correctness and auditability standards of financial infrastructure.
- Lead the evolution of engineering processes, quality standards, and architectural patterns across the team, raising the bar through design reviews and hands-on mentorship.
- Partner with Product, Finance, Risk, and Compliance to translate business and regulatory requirements into platform capabilities that unlock new fund movement corridors and product launches.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years of experience in
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