Senior Backend Engineer, Risk & Fraud AI Systems

Coinbase, Inc.; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 167,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk), to design and deliver high-impact risk systems at crypto-market scale. You will partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance to build real-time, model-driven fraud detection and risk controls.

You will mentor engineers, drive end-to-end architecture decisions, and ensure reliability and performance. This role offers equity, performance-based compensation, and a remote-first environment with

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture to deployment.
• Drive architectural decisions shaping risk detection and mitigation systems.
• Partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product and Compliance.
• Build AI-native risk systems that automate complex detection and response workflows.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and document technical designs.
• Own system quality, address technical debt, drive incident response and post-mortems.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

API design

Leadership

Incident response

Generative AI usage

Tools

REST APIs

GraphQL

Microservices

Event-driven

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk), to design and deliver high-impact risk systems at crypto-market scale. You will partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance to build real-time, model-driven fraud detection and risk controls.

You will mentor engineers, drive end-to-end architecture decisions, and ensure reliability and performance. This role offers equity, performance-based compensation, and a remote-first environment with