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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Financial Eng) - **Company:** Coinbase, Inc. - **Location:** Baton Rouge, LA, 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://dejobs.org/x/x/C9A7AFE57671448E9B02488368717FED/job/ ## 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., Depending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. 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