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CoinbaseEngineering - BackendRemote

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Finhub

Remote - CanadaFull-timeStaff£260,100 – £260,100
Posted Sep 1, 2026Deadline: Keep Open
Job SnapshotActively hiring
LocationRemote - Canada
Job typeFull-time
Salary£260,100 – £260,100
DeadlineKeep Open

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Experience level
Staff
Work style
Remote
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Salary
£260,100 – £260,100
Key skills
PythonJavaGoPaymentsComplianceTrading

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What you'll own

Define and drive the multi‑quarter technical strategy for FinHub’s ledger and money‑movement platform, architect reusable primitives for fiat and crypto flows, and lead the re‑architecture of distributed financial workflows.

What they're looking for

12+ years of backend engineering experience building large‑scale, high‑consequence financial systems, deep knowledge of distributed systems and languages like Go, Java or Python, and proven ability to lead cross‑team architectural initiatives without direct authority.

Why this role matters

FinHub is the core infrastructure that powers account balances and fund movement across all Coinbase products, so its correctness, security, and scalability are critical to the company’s mission of increasing economic freedom.

Fintech requirements

Visa sponsorship: No
Work arrangement: remote

About this role

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).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
$260,100—$260,100 CAD
  • 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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PythonJavaGoPaymentsComplianceTrading