Senior Backend Engineer - Real-Time Risk & Fraud AI

Coinbase, Inc.; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company with in-person surges for collaborative sessions. The Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) will lead the design and delivery of complex risk platform features, translating ambiguous requirements into scalable architectures while partnering with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance to implement proactive and reactive risk solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability, and own post-mortems to ensure platform resilience

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in backend languages (Go, Ruby, Python, or Java) and distributed systems design.
• Experience leading end-to-end projects and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Drive architectural decisions for risk detection and mitigation systems balancing security and user experience.
• Collaborate with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance to build proactive and reactive risk solutions.
• Build AI-native risk systems leveraging agents to automate complex workflows.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
• Own system quality, address technical debt, and lead incident response and post-mortems.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

Ruby

Python

Java

Distributed systems

REST/GraphQL APIs

Mentoring engineers

Incident response

Generative AI

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first company with in-person surges for collaborative sessions. The Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) will lead the design and delivery of complex risk platform features, translating ambiguous requirements into scalable architectures while partnering with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance to implement proactive and reactive risk solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability, and own post-mortems to ensure platform resilience