Senior Backend Engineer — Finance Systems (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 208,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a seasoned backend engineer to own the design and delivery of financing products and services with high reliability. You will build backend services and APIs for loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time position tracking, while driving reliability and tooling improvements across financing systems.

Join a remote-first company that values high performance and responsible use of AI, with quarterly in-person surges.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with production ownership of services handling high-reliability or financial workloads.
• Proven track record designing, building, and scaling service-oriented architectures in Go, Java, or a comparable backend language.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems where correctness, availability, and data integrity are critical.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, lead technical design reviews, and raise the bar on code quality across a team.
• Familiarity with relational data stores, gRPC/Protobuf, and observability tooling in a cloud-native environment.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of new financing products and features, from architecture through production launch.
• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks that support loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time position tracking.
• Drive engineering excellence by improving developer tooling, testing infrastructure, monitoring, and operational reliability across financing systems.
• Partner with Product, Risk, Operations, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable, well-scoped technical solutions each quarter.
• Lead technical initiatives that strengthen system resilience, reduce operational risk, and support the team's ability to ship safely at speed.

Skills

Backend development

Go/Java

Distributed systems

Mentoring engineers

Observability tooling

gRPC/Protobuf

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a seasoned backend engineer to own the design and delivery of financing products and services with high reliability. You will build backend services and APIs for loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time position tracking, while driving reliability and tooling improvements across financing systems.

Join a remote-first company that values high performance and responsible use of AI, with quarterly in-person surges.