Senior Backend Engineer, Institutional Client Lifecycle

Coinbase, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity eligibility

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on the Client Lifecycle team within the Institutional group.

You will own backend systems that take institutional clients from application to first trade and maintain them post-live, focusing on onboarding, access control, and provisioning for new products. You will mentor engineers, design scalable services, and collaborate with Compliance, Identity, and Prime product teams to deliver robust onboarding experiences for high-integrity

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Production experience with Go (or similar), gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling.
• Track record of composing and scaling service-oriented architectures with well-tested, production-grade code.
• Experience in regulated, high-integrity domains such as identity, access control, KYC/AML, or financial onboarding.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflows and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services moving institutional clients from application to first trade, including onboarding components.
• Drive onboarding automation and provisioning to reduce ops tickets for low-risk clients.
• Lead design of Organizations Service as truth source for institutional data and ensure data quality.
• Collaborate with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime teams to ship onboarding and access controls for new products.
• Shape the access-control stack so complex institutions can operate on Prime without tickets.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, incident response, and operational excellence.

Skills

Go

gRPC/Protobuf

Relational databases

Observability

Backend engineering

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on the Client Lifecycle team within the Institutional group.

You will own backend systems that take institutional clients from application to first trade and maintain them post-live, focusing on onboarding, access control, and provisioning for new products. You will mentor engineers, design scalable services, and collaborate with Compliance, Identity, and Prime product teams to deliver robust onboarding experiences for high-integrity