FCM Tech Lead

As a FCM Tech Lead at Coinbase, you'll be a hands-on technical anchor across the entire Coinbase Financial Markets (CFM) lifecycle. CFM is Coinbase's CFTC-regulated Futures Commission Merchant, serving retail and institutional clients trading and clearing US futures and options. You'll help lead a major replatforming onto next-gen architecture, reduce legacy vendor dependencies, and re-architect a regulated trading platform from the inside with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase.

What you'll do

• Own design and architecture across the FCM core, from market data and order routing through settlement, reporting, and risk
• Drive the next-gen replatforming effort, reducing legacy vendor dependencies while raising stability and reliability
• Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay down the technical debt that matters most
• Partner across pods (execution, risk, lifecycle) and cross-functionally with Product, CFM Risk and Ops, Finance, and Compliance to deliver correct, auditable systems and turn strategy into a roadmap
• Mentor engineers across the team and act as a force multiplier, scaling engineering quality and helping others grow

What you bring

• Extensive backend engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems
• Direct CFM or derivatives experience, with hands-on ownership of one or more parts of the futures trade lifecycle (settlement, clearing, margin/risk, order entry/routing, market data, or back-office books and records)
• Deep proficiency in a modern backend language (Go preferred; Java or similar) and event-driven, high-availability architectures
• Experience in a regulated or financial environment (CFTC/NFA or comparable) where correctness, auditability, and reliability are critical
• Track record delivering end-to-end, from scoping and architecture through implementation, monitoring, and iteration, including replatforming or migrating off legacy systems while still coding hands-on and raising the quality bar
• Ability to utilise generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Ion XTP

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $218,025-$256,500 USD (varies by location)
• Equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Remote-first work with quarterly in-person working sessions

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the future of regulated derivatives and the Institutional Everything Exchange. The company is on a mission to increase economic freedom and maintains a remote-first, collaborative culture focused on high standards and delivering impactful work in the crypto and finance space.