5 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, implementation, deployment, and monitoring of complex risk platform features.
- Drive architectural decisions for fraud detection and risk mitigation systems while balancing prevention with user experience.
- Partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams on proactive and reactive risk solutions.
- Build AI-native risk systems using fleets of agents to automate detection and response workflows.
- Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, write technical design documents, and promote engineering best practices.
- Own system quality and operational excellence through technical debt reduction, bug triage, incident response, and post-mortems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience delivering complex, high-impact production systems.
- Deep proficiency in one or more of Go, Ruby, Python, or Java.
- Experience designing distributed systems, including microservices, event-driven architectures, and REST/GraphQL APIs.
- Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into technical plans and scalable working architectures.
- Experience leading end-to-end projects from scoping and design through implementation, monitoring, and mentoring.
- Experience leading incident response, conducting post-mortems, and improving operations in high-availability systems.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight and measurable improvements to workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement, with quarterly in-person working sessions (“surges”).
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About Coinbase
Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.