At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world.

We’re seeking a Staff Software Engineer to technically lead the Tax Engineering team within the Consumer Product Group.

Tax Engineering sits at the intersection of every trade, every payment, and every product Coinbase ships on the hot path.

As the Staff Software Engineer on the team you'll define multi-quarter technical strategies, build systems with stringent correctness and scalability requirements, and set the technical direction for how Coinbase handles one of the most complex domains in financial services.

Ownership & impact

In this role, you will:

• Own the architecture and evolution of real-time and offline systems that calculate, track, and report taxes for crypto transactions at scale , ensuring correctness, low latency, and 24x7 availability.

• Define multi-quarter technical strategies for the Tax Platform, identifying opportunities to simplify complexity, improve reliability, and expand capabilities as Coinbase launches new asset types and products.

• Architect and build distributed systems that power tax calculation engines, cost basis tracking, and tax reporting APIs , serving millions of customers with strict accuracy requirements.

• Lead technical design and code reviews, setting standards for quality, performance, and maintainability across the team.

• Mentor engineers and elevate the technical bar.

• Partner cross-functionally with product, data, compliance, and frontend teams to deliver tax features that meet regulatory requirements and delight customers , from annual tax reports to real-time gain/loss calculations.

• Drive operational excellence by owning system reliability, incident response, and performance optimization for critical tax infrastructure that operates at the scale and speed of crypto markets.

Minimum qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous, high-impact problems.

• Proven track record designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production-level distributed systems with stringent correctness and availability requirements.

• Strong experience with backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, or similar) and modern infrastructure patterns including microservices, event-driven architectures, and REST/GraphQL API design.

• Deep expertise in data-intensive systems , experience with Kafka, Clickhouse, or similar tools for real-time and batch processing at scale.

• Demonstrated technical leadership: leading large projects with long-term impact, mentoring engineers, and driving alignment across teams on technical strategy.

• Excellent judgment on prioritization and the ability to break down ambiguous problems into actionable technical plans.

• 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

• Experience with tax systems, cost basis engines, 1099 reporting, or financial compliance infrastructure.

• Familiarity with equities, options, or margin trading or strong interest in learning trading/brokerage domains.

• Background at a tech-focused company (fintech, crypto, high-growth startup) rather than traditional finance.

Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$217,900-$217,900 CAD

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The crypto industry is one of the most exciting industries in tech today, and it is constantly changing! At Anchorage Digital, we are building foundational technology to help the crypto industry evolve in a safe, regulated and highly secure manner, which we believe is essential for maximizing the potential of this exciting industry.

We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Tech Lead role:

Technical Skills:

• Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of Wealth systems.
• Writes, reviews, tests, and documents code according to Anchorage’s engineering and team standards, and practices.
• Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions.
• Drive down technical complexity, refactor existing systems safely. Leave the codebase better than you found it.
• Review other developer’s code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the Wealth engineering team.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Lead large, strategic, ambiguous and complex projects that can be broken down into smaller achievable pieces.
• Help define the technical strategy of the team.
• Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice).
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the Wealth team and other teams at Anchorage Digital.

Communication and Influence:

• Mentor and guide team members within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals and how their work relates to these.
• Able to communicate with different people, with different contexts and expertise.
• Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• Have 8+ years of professional experience building backend services.
• Have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
• Have led large scale, complicated projects on an architectural level.
• Enjoy building resilient services that can handle different volumes of work without manual intervention.
• Prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech”.
• Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure.
• Have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
• You have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
• Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• Have GraphQL API design and implementation experience.
• Have gRPC API design and implementation experience.
• Have a background in the finance industry, specifically the Wealth industry.

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The crypto industry is one of the most exciting industries in tech today, and it is constantly changing! At Anchorage Digital, we are building foundational technology to help the crypto industry evolve in a safe, regulated and highly secure manner, which we believe is essential for maximizing the potential of this exciting industry.

We think about growth and career development differently at Anchorage Digital. We define performance as acquiring, possessing, and practicing a relevant set of skills and competencies - and the ability to apply them effectively and consistently.

Responsibilities

• Participate in task breakdown, estimation, design, implementation and maintenance of trading systems
• Use your knowledge of the trading system domain to influence the technical direction of the Brokerage team. Advocate for improved processes or technology when appropriate.
• Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate elegant and practical solutions
• Review other developer's code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the Brokerage engineering team
• Drive iterative system improvement by implementing robust instrumentation and metric collection.

Complexity and Impact of Work

• Able to work either independently or as a lead engineer on a team to deliver features
• Capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimating the time and scope of projects. Articulate effectively the different options considered, analyze trade-offs, justify and recommend priorities.

Organizational Knowledge

• Ensure that knowledge is shared across the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the Brokerage team and other teams at Anchorage Digital

Communication and Influence

• Mentor and guide multiple engineers on the team within your area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of the Brokerage team and how your work relates to these
• Understands others' context or underlying needs, motivations, emotions or concerns and adjusts communication to ensure maximum impact and effectiveness

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience with Go
• Experience with modern software development practices, including automated unit, integration and end to end testing, cloud development, database design and interaction using MySQL or PostgreSQL and experience using Git
• Knowledge of financial asset trading systems and understanding of several (not all) of the following topics: Order Execution Management Systems (OEMS), FIX protocol, market data, low latency application architectures and messaging, matching engines, FX trading, OTC, derivatives, position/risk management, cryptocurrency trading, trading back office systems
• Real world experience building financial trading systems
• Passionate about good software engineering design and implementation practices (e.g. TDD, SOLID, refactoring, etc)
• Genuinely care about code quality and test infrastructure
• Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others

Bonus Points

• Experience with GraphQL API design and implementation
• Experience with gRPC API design and implementation
• Background in the finance industry
• Experience working with digital asset (i.e. cryptocurrency) trading

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We believe the product is never 'done,' we can always do better! When you join Anchorage, we expect you to drive our products forward by developing novel solutions for our institutional clients. As a team, we are constantly striving to innovate in order to build the future of cryptocurrency and the digital asset ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain shared services and libraries that are used across our entire constellation of micro-services.
• Improve our code base by refactoring bottlenecks, reducing feedback loops and simplifying APIs.
• Develop user friendly APIs.
• Review other developer’s code to ensure consistency, reduce errors and share context across the engineering team.
• Dive deep into complex, ambiguous problems, formulate flexible and pragmatic solutions.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Be able to work either independently or as a lead engineer on a team to deliver features.
• Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt.
• Capable of breaking down large projects into smaller tasks, and help the team navigate the ambiguity of the space. Articulates effectively the different options considered, analyzes trade-offs, justifies and recommends priorities.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Ensure that knowledge is shared amongst the team and do not position yourself or others as a single point of failure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the Core Experience team and other teams at Anchorage Digital.

Communication and Influence:

• Mentor engineers on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals of Anchorage and how their work relates to these
• Communicate with different people, with different contexts and expertise.

You may be a fit for this role, if you:

• Have a deep appreciation for code quality and test infrastructure.
• Prioritize end-user experience and business over the latest tech
• Have developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. concurrency, algorithms, and data structures (Formal CS degree NOT required).
• Have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
• Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if you:

• Have GraphQL API design and implementation experience
• Have gRPC API design and implementation experience
• Feel comfortable diving down the stack and into open source projects to root cause a bug.
• In your mind the word “crypto” stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency.
• Were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

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The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of professional experience building backend services, have designed, delivered and maintained customer facing APIs, and have experience designing, building and deploying cloud native micro-services. They will be passionate about building automated tests alongside their features, enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time, and have a genuine interest and pride in code quality and infrastructure.

As a team, we are constantly striving to innovate in order to build the future of cryptocurrency and the digital asset ecosystem. We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Tech Lead role.

Responsibilities: Create and maintain shared services and libraries that are used across our entire services. Review code across the engineering organization while actively participating in product development. Find simple solutions to complex software problems. Efficiently implement high quality code (functional, performant, clear, concise and well tested). Production support. Participate in the on-call rotation and troubleshoot, mitigate and learn from production incidents to reduce their incidence. Drive down technical complexity, refactor existing systems safely. Leave the codebase better than you found it.

Complexity and Impact of Work: Lead large, strategic, ambiguous and complex projects that can be broken down into smaller achievable pieces. Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice). Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on controlling tech debt. Articulate effectively different options considered in projects, analyzing trade-offs and recommending priorities. Help define the technical strategy of the team.

Organizational Knowledge: Ensure that knowledge is shared among the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure. Collaborate cross-functionally with the Core Experience team and other teams at Anchorage Digital. Help scale the team.

Communication and Influence: Mentor and guide multiple engineers on the team within their area of specialization or domain, and help others understand the strategic goals and how their work relates to these. Able to communicate with different people, with different contexts and expertise. Influence architecture/product roadmap - have a seat at the table.

You may be a fit for this role, if you: Have 8+ years of professional experience building backend services. Have designed, delivered and maintained customer facing APIs. Have experience designing, building and deploying cloud native micro-services. Are passionate about building automated tests alongside your features. Enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time. Have a genuine interest and pride in code quality and infrastructure. Have experience performing on-call support for production systems. Prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.” Developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. algorithms, data structures and operating systems (Formal CS degree NOT required). Have real world experience building complex distributed systems. Believe software engineering is a team activity and enjoy collaborating every single day, learning from and mentoring others. You enjoy working closely with the product team to ship the best solution in a reasonable amount of time.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if you: Have professional experience with C++ or Go, Kubernetes, GraphQL API design and implementation and/or gRPC API design and implementation. Have experience with system security (e.g. authentication, authorization, identity, API keys). Have a background in the finance or cryptocurrency industries. You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system :)

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