Senior Backend Engineer, Financing Systems (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision, 401(k)

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 safely manage billions of dollars in loans across Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, Agency Lending, and more. You will own critical backend services, drive revenue, and help customers leverage leverage on trading positions while maintaining data integrity and availability.

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.

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 software engineering

Go/Java backend

Distributed systems

Mentor engineers

Relational data stores

gRPC/Protobuf

Observability tooling

AI for workflow improvements

Production ownership

Architectural design reviews

Tools

gRPC/Protobuf

Observability tooling

Relational databases

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 safely manage billions of dollars in loans across Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, Agency Lending, and more. You will own critical backend services, drive revenue, and help customers leverage leverage on trading positions while maintaining data integrity and availability.