Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, Settlements & Transfers)

Overview

Own the backend systems that power the secure movement of funds across fiat, crypto, and internal ledgers for Coinbase's institutional clients, as a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on the Foundations, Settlements and Transfers team within the Institutional group.

What you'll do

• Own the design, build, and scaling of backend services that process settlements and transfers across fiat, crypto, and internal ledger systems.
• Drive code quality and maintainability through rigorous code reviews, refactoring, and active participation across all stages of the development lifecycle.
• Lead performance and scalability improvements for critical financial infrastructure, including troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving production issues.
• Partner with product managers, engineering managers, and cross-functional teams to translate product vision into quarterly technical roadmaps and deliverables.
• Propose and implement architectural improvements that accelerate team velocity, reduce tech debt, and strengthen system reliability.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on technical best practices and professional growth, raising the bar across the team.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, including designing, building, and maintaining production services at scale.
• Production experience with Go (or similar backend language).
• Production experience with relational data stores (Postgres or equivalent).
• Production experience with message-based architectures (Kafka or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability to own system design decisions, lead technical proposals, and drive alignment across a team of engineers.
• Track record of identifying and resolving quality, performance, and scalability issues in distributed systems.
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a culture of high code quality through thorough reviews, testing, and documentation.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Details

• Remote-first, but not remote-only; expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called "surges."
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $207,955 - $218,900 USD.
• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.