Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Consumer/Trading
Coinbase
Distributed SystemsGoOpen Source
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Consumer Trading
Coinbase
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
Visit company websiteSalary
💰 $246,500 - $290,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Distributed SystemsGoOpen Source
About the role
- Drive the technical vision and execution of complex, multi-quarter projects across multiple engineering teams
- Architect and build mission-critical trading systems, including order management, execution engines, and reliability infrastructure
- Partner with PM, Design, and other functions to align product strategy with long-term technical bets
- Deeply understand and influence our trading stack and product roadmap
- Mentor and coach IC6s and below; help grow the next generation of trading and infrastructure leaders
- Elevate engineering quality through design review, code review, and promoting best practices
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of shipping large-scale distributed systems
- Deep expertise in trading systems (order management, execution algorithms, market data, or risk management)
- Customer-obsessed with strong product intuition for technical decision-making
- Proven ability to lead complex initiatives across organizational boundaries
- Strong mentoring skills; experience coaching senior engineers
- Comfortable working in ambiguous environments with high stakes and high velocity
- High bar for quality, correctness, and operational excellence
- Nice to haves: prior experience building complicated trading systems; prior experience in financial markets (equities, FX, or crypto); familiarity with regulated environments, compliance and auditability; experience working with Go or other performant backend languages; contributions to open source or trading protocols; crypto-forward experience (interacting with Ethereum addresses, ENS, dApps)
Benefits
- target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
- Team and company-wide offsites held multiple times annually (attendance expected and fully supported)
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringlarge-scale distributed systemstrading systemsorder managementexecution algorithmsmarket datarisk managementGobackend languagesopen source contributions
Soft skills
mentoringcoachingleadershipproduct intuitiondecision-makingworking in ambiguous environmentshigh stakeshigh velocityengineering qualitypromoting best practices
Similar jobs on JobTailor
Staff Software Engineer, ML Ranking Platform
Reddit, Inc.
Distributed SystemsGoPython
Senior Product Manager - Risk and Policy
Coinbase
Distributed Systems
Senior Product Manager – Risk and Policy
Coinbase
Distributed Systems
Principal/Senior Principal Product Manager – Edge Management
Red Hat
CloudDistributed SystemsIoTKubernetesLinuxOpen Source