Staff Software Engineer - Trading

2 months, 3 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Coinbase

Coinbase

Coinbase provides a user-friendly platform for buying and selling digital currencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, catering to individuals, businesses, and developers in the cryptocurrency market.

Capital Markets
1K-5K
Founded 2012

Description

  • Drive the technical vision and execution of complex, multi-quarter initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
  • Lead the design and development of mission-critical trading systems, including order management, execution engines, and reliability infrastructure.
  • Partner with product management, design, and other functions to align product strategy with technical direction and roadmap.
  • Deeply understand the trading stack and product roadmap to identify and shape strategic technical initiatives.
  • Mentor and coach engineers across multiple levels and help develop future technical leaders.
  • Raise engineering quality through design reviews, code review guidance, and process improvements.
  • Collaborate with the US Trading team to define and deliver Coinbase's next-generation trading system for IntX.
  • Influence stakeholders and drive consensus across organizational boundaries on complex technical decisions.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of shipping large-scale distributed systems.
  • Significant leadership experience in technical roles.
  • Deep expertise in trading systems, including order management, execution algorithms, market data, or risk management.
  • Experience with traditional or crypto trading systems (preferred).
  • Strong product intuition and customer focus in technical decision-making.
  • Proven ability to lead complex initiatives across organizational boundaries and influence stakeholders.
  • Strong mentoring skills and experience building high-performing teams.
  • Comfort working in ambiguous, high-stakes, high-velocity environments.
  • High standards for quality, correctness, and operational excellence.
  • Ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots such as LibreChat, Gemini, and Glean in daily workflows with human-in-the-loop practices.
  • Experience working with Go or other performant backend languages (preferred).
  • Prior experience in financial markets, especially equities, FX, or crypto (preferred).
  • Familiarity with regulated environments and designing for compliance and auditability (preferred).
  • Contributions to open source or trading protocols (preferred).

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of SGD $244,100.
  • Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.
  • Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Remote-first for many roles, with required in-person participation throughout the year.
  • Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually and are fully supported.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

SoV Team, Technical Lead, JR285

ELEKS 1K-5K Construction & Engineering

ELEKS is hiring a Senior .NET Technical Lead in the US to lead delivery for an insurance and investment banking client’s software engineering work.

Azure C# CI/CD Databricks Datadog Docker Kubernetes Microservices .NET Redis REST API SQL Server Terraform
1 day, 18 hours ago

Staff Engineer, AI Platform & Architecture (R5449)

Bitly 51-250 Internet Software & Services

Shield AI is hiring a Staff Engineer, AI Engineering to shape enterprise AI platform architecture and governance for production use across the company’s engineering and business teams.

Databricks Generative AI LLM MLOps Snowflake
1 day, 18 hours ago

Team Lead PHP Engineer

airSlate 251-1K Professional Services

airSlate is seeking a Team Lead PHP Engineer to join its Payments Systems core team and own the development, optimization, and integration of payment infrastructure that powers the user payment experience.

Argo CD CI/CD Docker Git GitHub Actions GitOps Go Kubernetes Laravel MySQL PHP PostgreSQL
1 day, 18 hours ago

Freelance Technology Lead

Huge 251-1K Media

Huge is hiring a remote freelance Technology Lead in Canada to support a short-term WordPress security remediation initiative for an enterprise platform.

PHP WordPress
2 days, 17 hours ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers