Lead the technical vision for FinHub's financial infrastructure at Coinbase, focusing on ledger and money movement architecture.
Posted by employer 1 week ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 8 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
40% coding
AI in the day-to-day
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Experience
- 12+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Staff Software Engineer on the FinHub team at Coinbase, the individual will focus on defining and executing the technical strategy for the financial infrastructure that underpins various financial products. Key skills include extensive experience with distributed systems and backend programming in languages like Go, Java, or Python, particularly in high-stakes transaction environments. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in financial systems and a proven ability to lead complex architectural initiatives across teams. Coinbase emphasizes a high-performance culture, pushing its engineers to excel in a collaborative yet demanding environm
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Quick facts
- Is the Senior Staff Software Engineer, Finhub role remote?
- It's hybrid — Coinbase expects some on-site time in Remote - Canada.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists CAD 260,100–CAD 260,100 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 12 years of relevant experience for this Senior Staff Software Engineer, Finhub role.
- Where is the role based?
- Coinbase is hiring for this position in Remote - Canada.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Financial systems, Go, Java, Payments, Python, Trading.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Staff Software Engineer, Finhub 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 a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the FinHub team within the Platform Product Group, you'll define the technical vision for the financial infrastructure that powers Coinbase. FinHub is the foundation for account balances and money movement across trading, payments, financing, staking, and other financial products. You'll serve as the domain's senior-most technical individual contributor, leading the evolution of our ledger and money-movement architecture so Coinbase can move funds with uncompromising correctness, security, reliability, and scale.
What you'll do:
- Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for FinHub's ledger and money-movement platform, supporting new financial products, platforms, and significant growth in transaction volume.
- Architect unified, reusable primitives across fiat and crypto fund flows, including account balances, holds, settlements, postings, transfers, and transaction history.
- Lead the 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 and ambiguous problems into clear milestones, migration plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Partner with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations 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 across FinHub.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including a track record of 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 non-negotiable.
- Proven expertise in distributed systems, consistency models, asynchronous workflows, and state machines, with strong backend programming experience in languages such as Go, Java, or Python.
- Experience driving multi-quarter technical strategy and leading complex architectural initiatives across multiple engineering teams without relying on direct authority.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly and build alignment with executive, engineering, product, finance, and operations stakeholders.
- 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: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
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