Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional -

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15 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
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Base Salary

$218k - $257k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own backend services supporting institutional clients from application through first trade, including Unified Business Onboarding, KYC Refresh, and provisioning.
  • Drive automated screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning to reduce operational onboarding tickets.
  • Design and implement the Organizations Service as the source of truth for institutional client data.
  • Partner with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Operations, Identity, and Prime teams to deliver onboarding and access controls for new products.
  • Shape roles, permissions, policies, and consensus capabilities in the access-control stack.
  • Mentor engineers and improve technical quality through design reviews, incident response, and operational excellence.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience building and maintaining production backend services in a service-oriented architecture.
  • Production experience with Go or a similar language, gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling.
  • Experience writing well-tested, production-grade code with high test coverage and structured code review practices.
  • Comfort working 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 but not fully remote, with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
  • Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
  • Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility.

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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