Engineering Manager - Platform (FinHub - Financial Intelligence)

About the role

As an Engineering Manager at Coinbase, you will lead a team of six engineers, focusing on technical excellence and career development. Your leadership will be crucial in re-architecting core systems to support new financial products and higher throughput demands as the company grows.

You will be responsible for shaping architectural decisions across various systems, collaborating with multiple departments to execute a quarterly roadmap. Expect a fast-paced environment where pushing boundaries is encouraged, and success is measured by the impact of your work.

The base salary for this position ranges from $218,025 to $256,500, depending on location.

Who this role suits

• Someone with extensive experience in software engineering and a strong background in engineering management.
• A leader who is comfortable with complex technical challenges and can translate them into actionable plans.
• An individual who values high-quality code and thorough design reviews.
• A candidate who appreciates a collaborative environment and is open to working closely with diverse teams.

From the employer

• Lead and grow a team of 6 engineers across multiple levels, coaching on technical excellence, career development, and organizational impact.
• Drive the re-architecture of core account and history systems to support new product primitives and higher throughput demands at Coinbase's next stage of growth.
• Own the Finhub Tools roadmap, building internal UIs, dashboards, and agentic workflows that accelerate engineering and operations teams across the company.
• Shape architectural decisions across distributed systems, streaming pipelines, and full-stack tooling, fostering a culture of high-quality code and thorough design reviews.
• Collaborate with product, finance, and engineering leadership to define and execute a quarterly roadmap, breaking complex infrastructure projects into iterative, shippable milestones.
• Partner with the talent organization to recruit exceptional engineers and own engineering quality processes including SLA accountability, incident response, and on-call practices.

• 7+ years in software engineering with at least 2 years of engineering management experience, including hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
• Proven track record delivering and operating distributed systems at scale in production, with hands-on ability to review code, lead incidents, and triage issues when needed.
• Demonstrated success translating ambiguous, long-horizon technical problems into concrete execution plans with measurable milestones.
• Experience with financial systems, event-driven architectures, or high-precision transaction processing where correctness and reliability are critical.
• Comfort leading teams with diverse scope (backend services, streaming pipelines, and full-stack tooling) with an appreciation for developer and operator UX.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

• Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $218,025 — $256,500 USD.
• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
• Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.