Remote Senior Backend Engineer — Onboarding & Access

Coinbase, Inc.; Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is building backend systems for institutional onboarding and post-live operations on Coinbase Prime. You will own services from application to first trade, including onboarding, provisioning, and data access controls, shaping how institutions enter the platform.

You'll collaborate with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime teams to ship new products, design access controls, and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend service experience in a service-oriented architecture.
• Production Go experience with gRPC/Protobuf and relational stores.
• Experience with regulated domains such as identity and onboarding.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services that move institutional clients from application to first trade, including onboarding, provisioning, and data access controls.
• Drive onboarding automation including automated screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning so low-risk clients complete onboarding without an ops ticket.
• Lead design and implementation of Organizations Service as the source of truth for institutional client data, including data quality and Salesforce decoupling.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime product teams to ship onboarding and access controls for new products including FCM, Hudson derivatives, and Prime Custody.
• Shape the access-control stack (roles, permissions, policies) so complex institutions can operate on Prime without opening a ticket.

Skills

Go

gRPC/Protobuf

Relational databases

Observability tooling

Test-driven development

KYC/AML familiarity

Tools

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is building backend systems for institutional onboarding and post-live operations on Coinbase Prime. You will own services from application to first trade, including onboarding, provisioning, and data access controls, shaping how institutions enter the platform.

You'll collaborate with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime teams to ship new products, design access controls, and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar.