Senior Backend Engineer - Remote Institutional Onboarding

Coinbase, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to own and scale backend systems for institutional onboarding, KYC, provisioning, and access controls on the Client Lifecycle team within the Institutional group.

You will partner with Compliance, Identity, and Prime product teams to ship onboarding for new products and maintain a robust access-control stack. Leverage Go, gRPC/Protobuf, and scalable data stores to deliver production-grade services, while driving automation and data

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Go, gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling.
• Experience designing and scaling service-oriented architectures with well-tested production code.
• Experience in regulated/high-integrity domains such as identity, access control, KYC/AML, or financial onboarding.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflows and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services moving institutional clients from application to first trade and maintain operation post-launch.
• Drive onboarding automation including automated screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning.
• Lead design and implementation of Organizations Service as the source of truth for institutional client data.
• Collaborate with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime teams to ship onboarding and access controls for new products.
• Shape the access-control stack to enable complex institutions to operate on Prime without manual tickets.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical standards through reviews and incident response.

Skills

Backend experience

Go

gRPC/Protobuf

Relational databases

Observability tooling

SOA / microservices

AI in engineering

Regulated domains (KYC/AML)

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to own and scale backend systems for institutional onboarding, KYC, provisioning, and access controls on the Client Lifecycle team within the Institutional group.

You will partner with Compliance, Identity, and Prime product teams to ship onboarding for new products and maintain a robust access-control stack. Leverage Go, gRPC/Protobuf, and scalable data stores to deliver production-grade services, while driving automation and data