Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Finance Platform (Go/Java)

Coinbase, Inc.; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 208,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company that values ambitious engineers who push boundaries and ship impactful finance products. You will own backend services for lending, from architecture through production launch, ensuring correctness and safety.

We seek 5+ years of backend experience, strong Go or Java, and a track record building distributed systems. You will mentor teammates, improve tooling, and help drive reliability across financing systems. Position ID: P78165; US applicants welcome.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with production ownership.
• Experience designing and scaling service-oriented architectures in Go/Java.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems with high reliability.
• Ability to mentor engineers and lead technical design reviews.
• Familiarity with relational stores, gRPC/Protobuf, and cloud observability.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of new financing products from architecture to launch.
• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks for loan lifecycle.
• Improve tooling, testing, monitoring, and reliability across financing systems.
• Partner with Product, Risk, Operations to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Lead initiatives to strengthen system resilience and ship safely at speed.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go/Java

Distributed systems

Mentorship

Observability

Generative AI usage

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first company that values ambitious engineers who push boundaries and ship impactful finance products. You will own backend services for lending, from architecture through production launch, ensuring correctness and safety.

We seek 5+ years of backend experience, strong Go or Java, and a track record building distributed systems. You will mentor teammates, improve tooling, and help drive reliability across financing systems. Position ID: P78165; US applicants welcome.