Remote-First Senior Backend Engineer, Onboarding

Coinbase, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own backend services that move institutional clients from application to first trade, and to maintain onboarding, provisioning, and access controls for Coinbase Prime.

You will collaborate with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime teams to ship onboarding and access controls for new products, including data quality and decoupling efforts of related systems. Strong focus on regulated domains and scalable backend design.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend services in a service-oriented architecture.
• Production experience with Go (or similar), gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling.
• Demonstrated practice of writing well-tested, production-grade code with high test coverage and structured code review habits.
• Comfort working in regulated, high-integrity domains such as identity, access control, KYC/AML, or financial onboarding.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services that move institutional clients from application to first trade, including onboarding components.
• Drive onboarding automation including automated screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning.
• Lead design and implementation of Organizations Service as the source of truth for institutional client data and Salesforce decoupling.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime product teams to ship onboarding and access controls for new products.
• Shape the access-control stack to enable complex institutions to operate on Prime without manual tickets.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, incident response, and operational excellence.

Skills

Go

gRPC/Protobuf

Relational databases

Observability tooling

Test-driven development

Regulated domains experience

Generative AI usage

Tools

Go tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Observability stacks

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own backend services that move institutional clients from application to first trade, and to maintain onboarding, provisioning, and access controls for Coinbase Prime.

You will collaborate with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime teams to ship onboarding and access controls for new products, including data quality and decoupling efforts of related systems. Strong focus on regulated domains and scalable backend design.