Remote Senior Backend Engineer — High-Impact Financing

Coinbase, Inc.; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 208,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Financing Engineering team within the Institutional group.

You will design, build, and scale backend services that manage billions of dollars in loans across Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, and other lending areas, enabling leveraged trading and yield generation for institutional clients. You will own the development of new financing products, contribute to architecture, and collaborate with Product, Risk, and Operations to deliver

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience in high-reliability or financial workloads.
• Proven design, building, and scaling of service-oriented architectures in Go, Java, or comparable backend languages.
• Experience operating distributed systems with correctness, availability, and data integrity.
• Ability to mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and raise code quality.
• Familiarity with relational data stores, gRPC/Protobuf, and cloud-native observability tooling.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own design and delivery of financing products from architecture to production launch.
• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks for loan lifecycle management.
• Improve tooling, testing, monitoring, and reliability across financing systems.
• Partner with Product, Risk, Operations to translate business requirements into scalable solutions.
• Lead initiatives to strengthen system resilience and reduce operational risk.

Skills

Backend Engineering

Go/Java

Distributed Systems

Code Reviews

Relational DBs

gRPC/Protobuf

Observability

AI Oversight

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Financing Engineering team within the Institutional group.

You will design, build, and scale backend services that manage billions of dollars in loans across Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, and other lending areas, enabling leveraged trading and yield generation for institutional clients. You will own the development of new financing products, contribute to architecture, and collaborate with Product, Risk, and Operations to deliver