Senior Backend Engineer, Financing Systems (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 208,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will design, build, and scale backend services that manage billions in loans across Portfolio Margin and related financing areas, driving revenue and ensuring safety. You will own end-to-end delivery of financing products, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Risk, Operations, and other teams to translate business needs into scalable tech solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of new financing products and features, from architecture through production launch, ensuring correctness and safety across high-value lending operations.
• 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 engineering

Go/Java

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Observability

Cloud-native

gRPC/Protobuf

AI in workflows

Tools

Relational databases

Protobuf/gRPC

Job description

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

You will design, build, and scale backend services that manage billions in loans across Portfolio Margin and related financing areas, driving revenue and ensuring safety. You will own end-to-end delivery of financing products, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Risk, Operations, and other teams to translate business needs into scalable tech solutions.