Engineering Manager - Platform (FinHub - Financial Intelligence)
Lead a team of engineers to re-architect foundational systems for Coinbase's financial intelligence platform.
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
AI in the day-to-day
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Experience
- 7+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Engineering Manager will oversee a team of engineers focused on re-architecting the foundational account and transaction history systems that support Coinbase's diverse financial products. Key skills include experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and a strong background in software engineering and management. This position is ideal for someone with a proven track record in leading technical teams and delivering complex projects, particularly in the financial sector. The team operates in a high-performance environment, emphasizing collaboration and innovation.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 5 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Coinbase's career page.
- Coinbase has 181 other open roles including Senior Data Scientist, Strategic Finance Manager, Platform, Product Manager II, Workspace and Multi-User.
- 224 active distributed systems roles on Joblaze right now.
- 6 active event-driven architectures roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Management roles (median ~$185,000).
- Pays more than 77% of the 142 salaried distributed systems roles we track (median $173,820). See distributed systems salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Engineering Manager - Platform (FinHub - Financial Intelligence) role remote?
- It's hybrid — Coinbase expects some on-site time in Remote - USA.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $218,025–$256,500 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Engineering Manager - Platform (FinHub - Financial Intelligence) role.
- Where is the role based?
- Coinbase is hiring for this position in Remote - USA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: distributed systems, event-driven architectures, transaction processing.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Engineering Manager - Platform (FinHub - Financial Intelligence) role at Coinbase.
From the original posting
Ready 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.
As an Engineering Manager on the FINT (Financial Intelligence) team within FinHub in the Platform group, you'll lead the engineers building the account and transaction history infrastructure that underpins every Coinbase product. FINT owns the universal account primitive, the real-time transaction history engine, and the internal developer experience platform for FinHub. You'll guide your team through a critical inflection point: re-architecting these foundational systems for the next decade of scale while enabling new financial products like sub-accounts, retirement accounts, and agentic trading experiences.
What you'll do:
- Lead and grow a team of 6 engineers across multiple levels, coaching on technical excellence, career development, and organizational impact
- Drive the re-architecture of core account and history systems to support new product primitives and higher throughput demands at Coinbase's next stage of growth
- Own the Finhub Tools roadmap, building internal UIs, dashboards, and agentic workflows that accelerate engineering and operations teams across the company
- Shape architectural decisions across distributed systems, streaming pipelines, and full-stack tooling, fostering a culture of high-quality code and thorough design reviews
- Collaborate with product, finance, and engineering leadership to define and execute a quarterly roadmap, breaking complex infrastructure projects into iterative, shippable milestones
- Partner with the talent organization to recruit exceptional engineers and own engineering quality processes including SLA accountability, incident response, and on-call practices
Required skills and experience:
- 7+ years in software engineering with at least 2 years of engineering management experience, including hiring, coaching, and developing engineers
- Proven track record delivering and operating distributed systems at scale in production, with hands-on ability to review code, lead incidents, and triage issues when needed
- Demonstrated success translating ambiguous, long-horizon technical problems into concrete execution plans with measurable milestones
- Experience with financial systems, event-driven architectures, or high-precision transaction processing where correctness and reliability are critical
- Comfort leading teams with diverse scope (backend services, streaming pipelines, and full-stack tooling) with an appreciation for developer and operator UX
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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