Senior Staff Software Engineer (Finhub)

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

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- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly and build alignment with executive, engineering, product, finance, and operations stakeholders

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

12+ years of software engineering experience, including a track record of building and operating large-scale backend distributed systems in production

Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Deep experience designing financial, payments, ledger, banking, trading, or other high-consequence transaction systems where correctness and auditability are non-negotiable