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Software Engineering & IT Backend Engineering
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
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- Remote - United States Remote - United States
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 7+ years in software engineering with at least 2 years of engineering management experience, including hiring, coaching, and developing...
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Qualifications
Required experience includes software engineering and engineering management, operating distributed systems at scale, translating ambiguous technical problems into execution plans, and working with financial systems, event-driven architectures, or high-precision transaction processing. The role also requires comfort leading teams across backend services, streaming pipelines, and full-stack tooling, and responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.
About the role
Original posting provided by Coinbase
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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About the company
Coinbase
Large Enterprise
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, and manage digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has grown to serve millions of users globally, providing a secure and user-friendly experience for both novice and experienced traders. Coinbase aims to create an open financial system for the world, advocating for the adoption of digital currencies while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards in various markets. Through its innovative products and services, Coinbase seeks to empower individuals and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with confidence.