Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, USDC)

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2 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
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Base Salary

$208k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and delivery of financing products and features from architecture through production launch.
  • Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks for loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time position tracking.
  • Improve developer tooling, testing infrastructure, monitoring, and operational reliability across financing systems.
  • Partner with Product, Risk, Operations, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Lead technical initiatives that strengthen resilience, reduce operational risk, and support safe delivery.
  • Mentor engineers and lead technical design reviews while raising code quality across the team.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with production ownership of high-reliability or financial services.
  • Experience designing, building, and scaling service-oriented architectures in Go, Java, or a comparable backend language.
  • Experience building and operating distributed systems where correctness, availability, and data integrity are critical.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, lead technical design reviews, and improve code quality across a team.
  • Familiarity with relational data stores, gRPC/Protobuf, and observability tooling in a cloud-native environment.
  • Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

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

Tech Stack

GogRPCJava

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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