Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Risk & Fraud

Coinbase, Inc.; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to build and optimize real-time risk detection and fraud prevention systems at crypto-market scale. You will lead end-to-end features from architecture through production, collaborating with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance.

You will mentor engineers, conduct rigorous code reviews, and push for reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering in production systems.
• Proficiency in Go, Ruby, Python or Java and designing distributed microservices.
• Ability to translate requirements into technical plans across engineering, product and data science.
• Experience leading end-to-end projects and mentoring engineers.
• Experience leading incident response and post-mortems for high-availability systems.
• Use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring, with stringent requirements for correctness, performance, and reliability.
• Drive architectural decisions that shape Coinbase's risk detection and mitigation systems, translating ambiguous business requirements into scalable working architectures that balance fraud prevention with user experience.
• Partner cross-functionally with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams to build proactive systems (real-time decisioning engines, model-driven fraud detection) and reactive solutions (incident response tooling, compliance-driven risk controls).
• Build AI-native risk systems that leverage fleets of agents to automate complex detection and response workflows, significantly reducing the need for manual intervention.
• Strengthen the team by mentoring engineers, conducting rigorous code reviews, writing technical design documents for complex systems, and championing engineering best practices across the codebase.
• Own system quality and operational excellence by proactively addressing technical debt, driving bug triaging, and leading incident response and post-mortems to ensure platform reliability.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go/Ruby/Python/Java

Technical planning

Project leadership

Incident response

AI governance

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to build and optimize real-time risk detection and fraud prevention systems at crypto-market scale. You will lead end-to-end features from architecture through production, collaborating with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance.

You will mentor engineers, conduct rigorous code reviews, and push for reliability and performance.