Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, Settlements & Transfers)

Join Coinbase as a Senior Software Engineer on the Foundations, Settlements and Transfers team within the Institutional group. You will own the backend systems that facilitate the secure movement of funds across fiat, crypto, and internal ledgers for institutional clients. Your responsibilities will include designing, building, and scaling backend services, driving code quality and maintainability, leading performance and scalability improvements, and mentoring junior and mid-level engineers. You should have 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, production experience with Go (or similar backend language), and a track record of identifying and resolving quality, performance, and scalability issues in distributed systems.

• Design, build, and scale 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.

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