Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (FinHub Tooling)

Role Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer (Backend) – Platform (FinHub Tooling) at Coinbase, you will own the technical strategy and architecture for an internal platform that provides Engineering, Customer Experience, Risk, and Compliance teams operational visibility into daily fund movements across crypto, fiat, and internal wallets. FinHub is central to Coinbase; the Tooling team makes fund movements searchable, investigable, and remediable at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Own the technical strategy, architecture, and quarterly roadmap for the FinHub Tooling platform.
• Drive an AI-first approach to internal tooling, identifying opportunities for AI-powered workflows and automating manual processes.
• Build high-reliability systems supporting:
  • Search
  • Admin workflows
  • Bulk remediation
  • Observability across core financial entities
• Lead cross-functional alignment with Product, Payments, and senior leadership to turn ambiguous initiatives into scoped technical roadmaps.
• Improve engineering quality by defining engineering processes, leading design reviews, and mentoring engineers on architecture patterns and coding standards.

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of software engineering experience designing and building fault-tolerant, highly reliable systems at scale.
• Proven ownership of technical strategy and roadmaps for a platform/service/team, including significant architectural trade-offs.
• Ability to drive execution on complex, ambiguous initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Track record of elevating team technical quality via mentorship, design reviews, and process improvements.
• Experience architecting internal tooling/admin platforms/operational systems serving multiple user groups with competing requirements.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight, delivering business-ready outputs and measurable improvements to workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Compensation (Base Salary)

• $218,025 – $256,500 USD annually (excluding equity/bonus), depending on location.