Senior Backend Engineer - Remote Finance Lending at Scale

Coinbase, Inc.; Pierre (SD); Remote; USD 208,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a senior backend engineer to own design and delivery of new financing features from architecture through production launch. You will build and maintain services supporting loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time tracking.

Join a remote-first environment with quarterly in-person surges; expect collaboration across Product, Risk, and Operations to deliver scalable, reliable solutions and improve tooling and observability.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years backend engineering with production ownership of high-reliability services.
• Experience designing and scaling service-oriented architectures in Go, Java or similar.
• Experience operating distributed systems where data integrity matters.
• Ability to mentor engineers and lead design reviews to raise code quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of financing features from architecture to production launch.
• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks for loan lifecycle management.
• Improve tooling, testing, monitoring, and reliability across financing systems.
• Collaborate with Product, Risk, Operations to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Lead initiatives to strengthen resilience and enable safe, fast shipping.

Skills

Backend experience

Go/Java proficiency

Distributed systems

Mentoring engineers

Relational databases

gRPC/Protobuf

Observability tooling

AI in workflows

Tools

Go/Java runtime & services

Cloud-native tooling

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a senior backend engineer to own design and delivery of new financing features from architecture through production launch. You will build and maintain services supporting loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time tracking.

Join a remote-first environment with quarterly in-person surges; expect collaboration across Product, Risk, and Operations to deliver scalable, reliable solutions and improve tooling and observability.