Engineering Manager - Platform (FinHub)

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Ledger team within the Product Foundations - Platform Product Group.  Ledger is one of the core services for Coinbase responsible for processing transactions and managing the funds of our users. As one of Coinbase's most mission-critical services Ledger sits at the core of our platform processing billions in transactions and securing the assets of millions of users. Today our scale and complexity of operations have far surpassed the original design of Ledger and fund management systems. This presents a rare and exciting opportunity to rearchitect foundational infrastructure that will shape Coinbase's success for the next decade.

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

• Build and manage engineering teams to guide the development of features services and infrastructure.
• Coach your direct reports to have a positive impact on the organization and support their career growth.
• Implement the multi-year strategy for our team and collaborate with engineers designers product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
• Be a thoughtful technical voice within the team aiding in diligent architectural decisions and fostering a culture of high-quality code and engineering processes.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery and operation of multi-tenanted distributed systems at scale.
• Work closely with our talent organization to identify and recruit exceptional engineers who align with Coinbase's culture and will help the team scale.
• Contribute to and take ownership of processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs.

What We Look For In You (ie. Job Requirements): 

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering.
• At least 2 years of engineering management experience.
• You possess a strong understanding of what constitutes high-quality code and effective engineering practices.
• An execution-focused mindset capable of navigating through ambiguity and delivering results.
• An ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with short-term planning.
• Experience in creating delivering and operating multi-tenanted distributed systems at scale.
• You can be hands-on when needed – whether that’s writing/reviewing code or technical documents participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents or triaging/troubleshooting bugs.
• 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:

• Prior experience leading a Platform or similar domain team.
• Experience designing and operating ledgering or trading systems at scale.
• Experience with financial data accounting systems or high-precision transaction processing.
• Experience with Go Kubernetes Postgres or similar technologies.
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).
• Crypto-forward experience including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses using ENS and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Job #: P76571

What We Do

Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets including trading staking safekeeping spending and fast free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.

Why Work With Us

We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world to help people control their own wealth start companies have financial privacy and participate in the global economy. And to get us there we focus build and move as a team.

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