Senior Backend Engineer — Remote Onboarding & Access

Coinbase, Inc.; Annapolis (MD); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a remote-first culture that values independence and impact. The Client Lifecycle team within Institutional Foundations shapes onboarding, provisioning, and access controls for Coinbase Prime, enabling institutional clients to go from application to first trade and stay live.

You will own backend services, lead onboarding automation, design data services, collaborate with product/compliance, and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar across the

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend services in a service-oriented architecture.
• Production experience with Go (or similar), gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling.
• Demonstrated practice of writing well-tested, production-grade code with high test coverage and structured code review habits.
• Comfort working in regulated, high-integrity domains such as identity, access control, KYC/AML, or financial onboarding.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services that move institutional clients from application to first trade, including Unified Business Onboarding, KYC Refresh, and provisioning.
• Drive onboarding automation including automated screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning so low-risk clients complete onboarding without an ops ticket.
• Lead design and implementation of Organizations Service as the source of truth for institutional client data, including data quality, entity uniqueness, and Salesforce decoupling.
• Partner with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime product teams to ship onboarding and access controls for new products including FCM, Hudson derivatives, and Prime Custody.
• Shape the access-control stack (roles, permissions, policies, and consensus) so complex institutions can operate on Prime without opening a ticket.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, incident response, and operational excellence.

Skills

Go

gRPC/Protobuf

Relational databases

Observability tooling

Testing / test coverage

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a remote-first culture that values independence and impact. The Client Lifecycle team within Institutional Foundations shapes onboarding, provisioning, and access controls for Coinbase Prime, enabling institutional clients to go from application to first trade and stay live.

You will own backend services, lead onboarding automation, design data services, collaborate with product/compliance, and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar across the