Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, Client Lifecycle)

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14 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
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Base Salary

$186k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own backend services that move institutional clients from application to first trade, including Unified Business Onboarding, KYC Refresh, and provisioning.
  • Build onboarding automation for screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning.
  • Design and implement the Organizations Service for institutional client data, data quality, entity uniqueness, and Salesforce decoupling.
  • Partner with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime teams to deliver onboarding and access controls for new products.
  • Shape roles, permissions, policies, and consensus within the access-control stack.
  • Mentor engineers and improve technical and operational standards through design reviews, incident response, and operational excellence.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of backend software engineering experience designing, building, and maintaining production services at scale.
  • Production experience with Go or a similar language, gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling.
  • Experience composing and scaling service-oriented architectures and writing well-tested, production-grade code.
  • Experience in regulated, high-integrity domains such as identity, access control, KYC/AML, or financial onboarding.
  • Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
  • Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), equity eligibility, and bonus eligibility are available in addition to base salary.

Tech Stack

GogRPC

Categories

Coinbase

About Coinbase

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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