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# Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Financial Eng)

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Indianapolis, IN, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $186,065.0 - $218,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Accounting Systems, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Blockchain, Ruby, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Transaction Processing (Computing), Backend, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Docker, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** July 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indianapolisgigs.com/job.asp?id=3336282617&tx=KR2121FFG&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* 5+ years of software development experience with experience writing performant, large scale distributed systems
 * Designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
 * You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
 * Ability to solve complex engineering problems that deliver results aligned with team objectives
 * Ability to mentor junior developers and lead the team technically on new initiatives and system improvements
 * You're passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
 * Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.

Nice to haves:

 * Experience with financial data, accounting systems, or high-precision transaction processing
 * You have gone through a rapid growth in your company
 * You have experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
 * You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
 * You've worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB.
 * You've built financial, high reliability or security systems.

## Description

Financial Engineering builds Coinbase's financial data and reporting foundations to enable accurate, timely, and auditable financial operations. The team partners closely with Finance, Accounting/Controllership, Treasury, and Product Engineering to ensure financial data is complete, reconciled, and traceable-supporting core workflows like month-end close, safeguarding, and reporting at scale.

What you'll be doing:

 * Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang.
 * Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
 * Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them.
 * Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
 * Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.


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