Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Financial Eng)

Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build their emerging onchain platform. The role involves designing scalable systems, building new services, and collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality code that meets customer needs.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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