Senior Software Engineer, Tax Engineering

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on the Tax Engineering team within the Consumer & Business group, building the backend systems that calculate cost basis, gain/loss, withholding and tax reporting across Coinbase products.

What you'll do

• Own the design and delivery of backend systems for cost basis tracking, gain/loss calculation, withholding automation, and tax reporting infrastructure
• Build new pipelines for broker reporting, automated withholding, and clearing integrations with partners as Coinbase expands into equities, margin, and options
• Partner with Product, Design, Tax, Trading, and Positions teams to take ambiguous problems from scoping through production rollout
• Drive an extensible tax architecture so every new product launch can plug into shared primitives without bespoke rework
• Strengthen engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentorship across the team

What you'll need

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems with high-quality, well-tested code
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals, with experience designing high-throughput services and data pipelines where correctness is critical
• Track record owning complex systems end-to-end, from design through production operation, in fast-changing domains
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate closely with product, design, and cross-functional partners to translate ambiguous requirements into shipped solutions
• 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; quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges"
• Target annual base salary: $191,100 CAD (excluding equity and bonus)
• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period