3 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 (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. The most trusted crypto platform, Coinbase stores more digital assets than any other company and is building the everything exchange — one place to access crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and more. Coinbase serves consumers through its suite of financial apps, institutions through Coinbase Prime, and developers through the Coinbase Developer Platform. Every experience runs on Coinbase's full-stack platform powering the future of finance: secure custody, deep exchange liquidity, stablecoin infrastructure, and global settlement rails — all built on a decade-plus foundation of security and compliance.