Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Financial Services and Loyalty)

Details

Join Coinbase's Consumer Trading team to help build the next-generation trading platform focused on financial services and loyalty. The role is highly technical and leadership-oriented: you will own multi-quarter initiatives across teams, design and implement mission-critical trading infrastructure, mentor engineers, and help shape the long-term technical vision for trading systems. Coinbase is remote-first but not remote-only; in-person participation is required throughout the year for team and company offsites.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical vision and execute complex, multi-quarter projects spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Architect and build mission-critical trading systems, including order lifecycle management, execution engines, and reliability infrastructure.
• Partner with Product Management, Design, and other functions to align product strategy with long-term technical bets.
• Deeply understand and influence the trading stack and product roadmap.
• Mentor and coach senior and junior engineers (IC6s and below); grow the next generation of trading and infrastructure leaders.
• Elevate engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, and promoting best practices for correctness and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of shipping large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in trading systems (traditional or crypto), including experience in areas like order management, execution algorithms, market data, or risk management.
• Proven ability to lead complex initiatives across organizational boundaries and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong mentoring skills and a passion for leveling up teammates.
• Customer-obsessed with strong product intuition that informs technical decision-making.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, high-stakes, high-velocity environments.
• High bar for quality, correctness, reliability, and operational excellence.

Nice to Haves

• Prior experience building complicated trading systems (equities, FX, crypto).
• Experience with regulated environments and designing for compliance and auditability.
• Experience working with Go or other performant backend languages.
• Contributions to open source projects or trading protocols.
• Crypto-forward experience (onchain activity, interacting with Ethereum addresses, ENS, dApps, blockchain-based services).

Compensation

• Pay Range: $246,500 — $290,000 USD (full-time offers also include bonus eligibility, equity eligibility, and benefits).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans with generous employee contributions
• Health Savings Account with company contributions
• Disability and life insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Wellness, connections, and volunteer stipends
• Mobile/internet reimbursement
• Fertility counseling and benefits
• Generous time off and leave policies
• Option to receive payment in digital currency

Additional Information

• Job ID: GCBE07US
• Coinbase is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
• The company piloting select AI tools for interview screening and interview intelligence; humans review interview outputs.