The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
What you'll do
Own the technical architecture of Transfers' fund movement systems, driving: design decisions on distributed system structure, correctness guarantees, and scalability across crypto and fiat rails
Lead complex, cross-team engineering initiatives end-to-end, partnering with: Payments, Trading, and product engineering teams to deliver new fund movement capabilities and platform improvements
Drive the evolution of Transfers' backend infrastructure using modern: cloud-native patterns, proactively identifying scaling bottlenecks and architecting solutions before they impact customers
Establish engineering standards, code review practices, and architectural: patterns that raise the quality bar across the team and reduce operational risk in high-correctness financial systemsMentor engineers across levels on system design, distributed systems best practices, and building production services where financial integrity and reliability are non-negotiable
+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production,: with demonstrated experience owning architectural direction and making technical decisions that shape a team's or domain's long-term trajectory
Deep expertise in backend programming (e.g., Go, Ruby, Python, or Java) and: cloud-native architecture, with proven ability to design highly available, high-throughput systems where correctness is critical
What they're looking for
- Track record delivering and scaling financial systems, fund movement: platforms, or similarly high-reliability domains where transaction integrity, idempotency, and auditability are core requirements
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives, mentoring: engineers, and translating complex distributed systems problems into clear architectural decisions and actionable roadmaps
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver: business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
