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As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform FinHub Tooling team, you'll own the technical strategy and architecture for the internal platform that gives Engineering, Customer Experience, Risk, and Compliance teams operational visibility into billions of dollars in daily fund movements across crypto, fiat, and internal wallets. FinHub sits at the core of Coinbase, and the Tooling team is what makes those fund movements searchable, investigable, and remediable at scale. You'll set the technical direction for the platform, drive an AI-first approach to internal tooling, and elevate the entire team's engineering quality while maintaining high-volume individual output
What You'll Do: Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the FinHub Tooling platform, making key decisions on system design, reliability, and performance across multiple stakeholder groups
Drive an AI-first approach to internal tooling, identifying where AI-powered workflows can transform operational efficiency and replacing manual processes with intelligent automation
Build high-reliability systems that serve Engineering, CX, Risk, and Legal teams, including search, admin workflows, bulk remediation, and observability across core financial entities
Lead cross-functional alignment with Product, Payments, and senior leadership to turn ambiguous, high-impact initiatives into scoped technical roadmaps each quarter
Strengthen team engineering quality by defining engineering processes, leading design reviews, and mentoring engineers on architecture patterns and coding standards
Required Skills and Experience: 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a track record of designing and building fault-tolerant, highly reliable systems at scale
Demonstrated ownership of technical strategy and roadmap for a platform, service area, or team, including making architectural trade-offs with significant organizati