Engineering Manager, Compliance Technology (Platform)

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Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a candidate who is passionate about crypto and blockchain technology, eager to leave their mark, and comfortable working with high-caliber colleagues in an intense, feedback-driven culture. Many roles at Coinbase are remote-first but not remote-only — in-person participation is required throughout the year for team and company-wide offsites.

The Platform Product Group’s mission is to build a trusted, scalable, and compliant platform to maximize velocity, efficiency and quality. The Coinbase Compliance Technology Team develops globally scalable systems to meet regulatory requirements, including transaction monitoring, sanctions and screening systems, customer risk scoring, and other compliance solutions that ensure regulatory compliance while maintaining a seamless customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-stack development efforts spanning backend Golang services to UIs with professional UX for internal compliance use cases.
• Plan, design, develop, and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products, including cloud-based or internet-related tools.
• Design scalable systems to solve novel problems using modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate product and technical vision into quarterly roadmaps.
• Integrate services with Retail and Institutional product teams to drive customer benefits while maintaining a world-class compliance program.
• Debug complex technical problems; improve deployability, operability, and diagnosability of systems.
• Review feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects.
• Own the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of designs.
• Build pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors and design event-driven system architectures.
• Lead multiple engineering efforts in parallel while maintaining high service quality standards.
• Create and enforce processes to improve engineering quality, AI adoption, and high-impact delivery by each team member.
• Maintain a high bar for recruiting engineering talent and contribute to processes that drive engineering quality and meet SLAs.
• Be a thoughtful technical voice in architectural decisions and foster a culture of high-quality code and engineering processes for multi-tenant, distributed systems at scale.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, developing web apps, and shipping user-facing features with TypeScript and modern component-based JS frameworks such as React and Next.js.
• At least 2 years of engineering management experience.
• Willingness and ability to be hands-on when needed: writing/reviewing code or technical documents, participating in on-call rotations, leading incidents, or triaging/troubleshooting bugs.
• Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services, with knowledge of service-oriented architecture.
• Experience with backend systems using Golang, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and DynamoDB.
• Familiarity with front-end architecture best practices (performance, security, usability) and product/design lifecycles; experience collaborating closely with designers and product managers.
• Strong emphasis on writing high-quality, well-tested code and excellent written and verbal communication skills with a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.
• Passion for building an open financial system.

Nice to haves

• Experience building compliance systems.
• Exposure to financial crimes compliance systems (transaction monitoring systems, enhanced due diligence, screening systems).

Pay Transparency

• Target annual salary range shown: $204,500 — $204,500 CAD. Full-time offers may also include target bonus, target equity, and benefits (medical, dental, vision).

Benefits

• Extended health care (coordinates with provincial coverage)
• Dental care
• Vision care
• Virtual health care (Consult+)
• Life & accident insurance
• Disability coverage
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Wellness stipend, Mobile/Internet reimbursement, Connections stipend
• Learning and development allowance
• Employee assistance program
• Travel medical policy (global traveler)
• Fertility benefits
• Generous time off/leave policy

Other notes

• Job #: GPEM06US
• Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience.
• #LI-Remote
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.