Senior Backend Engineer, Institutional Onboarding (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on the Client Lifecycle team. You will own backend systems that move institutional clients from application to first trade and ensure they operate independently once live.

You will design Unified Business Onboarding, KYC Refresh, provisioning, and access controls, partnering with Compliance, Identity, Onboarding Ops, and Prime teams to ship onboarding for new products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development in production services.
• Go, gRPC/Protobuf, and relational databases experience.
• Experience with high-integrity domains such as identity or onboarding.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services moving institutions from application to first trade.
• Lead onboarding automation, risk scoring, and provisioning.
• Design Organizations Service as truth for institutional data and Salesforce decoupling.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Identity, Onboarding Ops, and Prime teams.
• Shape access control stack to enable complex institutions without tickets.
• Mentor engineers and improve reliability through reviews and incident response.

Skills

Backend

Go

gRPC/Protobuf

Relational DBs

Observability

SOA

AI in prod

Regulated domains

Code quality

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on the Client Lifecycle team. You will own backend systems that move institutional clients from application to first trade and ensure they operate independently once live.

You will design Unified Business Onboarding, KYC Refresh, provisioning, and access controls, partnering with Compliance, Identity, Onboarding Ops, and Prime teams to ship onboarding for new products.