Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (FinHub - Transfer)

ABOUT THE ROLE We're seeking a highly motivated and experienced Staff Software Engineer to join the FinHub Transfers team within the Platform organization at Coinbase. As a remote-first company, we value collaboration and innovation, and we're looking for someone who shares our passion for building the future of finance. You'll have the opportunity to own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for the Transfers platform, drive execution on complex cross-team initiatives, and elevate engineering quality across the team. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for: - Owning 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 - Driving cross-team initiatives spanning multiple product groups (Retail, Prime, Exchange, Payments, International), building alignment with stakeholders and turning ambiguous requirements into scoped technical plans - Building and scaling high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems that process billions of dollars in daily transaction volume with the correctness and auditability standards of financial infrastructure - Leading the evolution of engineering processes, quality standards, and architectural patterns across the team, raising the bar through design reviews and hands-on mentorship - Partnering with Product, Finance, Risk, and Compliance to translate business and regulatory requirements into platform capabilities that unlock new fund movement corridors and product launches WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you'll need: - 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a track record of designing and building fault-tolerant, highly reliable distributed systems at scale - Demonstrated ownership of technical strategy and roadmap for a platform or service area, including making architectural trade-offs with significant organizational impact - Proven experience architecting solutions to ambiguous, cross-team problems, driving alignment across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders to deliver results - Deep experience with ledgering, transfers, payments, or trading systems that process high-precision financial transactions at scale - Track record of elevating team technical quality through mentorship, design reviews, and engineering process improvements - Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality WHY REMOTE As a remote-first company, Coinbase values collaboration and innovation. You'll have the opportunity to work with a talented team of engineers and contribute to the development of our platform. We also offer quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges" to bring the team together and foster collaboration. BENEFITS Coinbase offers a competitive salary, equity, and bonus eligibility, as well as benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)). The annual base salary range for this role is $218,025 - $256,500 USD, excluding equity and bonus.