Senior Backend Engineer, Risk & AI-Driven Systems

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to build and optimize risk systems protecting millions of users in real time. You will guide architectural decisions, collaborate with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product and Compliance, and deliver end-to-end features with high correctness and performance.

You will lead incident response, mentor engineers, and champion engineering best practices while balancing fraud prevention with user experience in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering in production.
• Experience designing distributed systems with microservices.
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into technical plans.
• Proven track record leading end-to-end projects.
• Experience with incident response and post-mortems.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end.
• Drive architectural decisions for risk detection and mitigation.
• Partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product and Compliance.
• Build AI-native risk systems to automate detection and response.
• Mentor engineers, perform code reviews, and raise engineering standards.
• Own system quality and drive incident response and post-mortems.

Skills

Go

Ruby

Python

Java

Backend design

Distributed systems

REST/GraphQL APIs

Mentoring

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to build and optimize risk systems protecting millions of users in real time. You will guide architectural decisions, collaborate with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product and Compliance, and deliver end-to-end features with high correctness and performance.

You will lead incident response, mentor engineers, and champion engineering best practices while balancing fraud prevention with user experience in a