Engineering Manager - Platform (FinHub - Financial Intelligence)

About the role

This Engineering Manager position at Coinbase focuses on leading the Financial Intelligence team, specifically on re-architecting critical account and history systems. The goal is to support new financial products and handle increased throughput as the company grows. The role involves shaping architectural decisions across distributed systems, streaming pipelines, and full-stack tooling, while also fostering a culture of high-quality code and design.

A key responsibility is to own the Finhub Tools roadmap, which includes building internal user interfaces, dashboards, and automated workflows. These tools are designed to enhance the efficiency of engineering and operations teams throughout Coinbase. The manager will collaborate with product, finance, and engineering leadership to define and execute quarterly roadmaps, breaking down complex infrastructure projects into manageable, shippable milestones.

The manager will lead and develop a team of six engineers, providing coaching on technical skills, career growth, and organizational impact. This includes partnering with the talent organization for recruitment and overseeing engineering quality processes like SLA accountability, incident response, and on-call duties. The role requires a hands-on approach to reviewing code, leading incident resolution, and triaging issues when necessary.

The annual base salary for this role ranges from $218,025 to $256,500 USD, with the specific amount varying by location.

Skills that matter here

• software engineering: Candidates need at least 7 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on delivering and operating distributed systems in production.
• engineering management: The role requires at least 2 years of experience in engineering management, including hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
• distributed systems: A proven track record in delivering and operating distributed systems at scale is essential, along with the ability to review code and handle incidents.
• financial systems: Experience with financial systems, event-driven architectures, or high-precision transaction processing is necessary due to the critical nature of correctness and reliability.
• event-driven architectures: Familiarity with event-driven architectures is important for managing the flow and processing of data within the financial intelligence systems.
• full-stack tooling: Comfort leading teams that manage diverse scopes, including full-stack tooling, is required, with an appreciation for developer and operator user experience.

Who this role suits

• A leader who can translate complex, long-term technical challenges into clear, actionable plans with measurable milestones.
• Someone with a hands-on technical background who can review code, lead incident response, and triage issues when needed.
• An individual who excels at coaching and developing engineers across various levels and technical scopes.
• A professional comfortable working in an intense, high-bar environment focused on continuous improvement and pushing boundaries.

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.