Senior Backend Engineer - Risk & Fraud (Remote)

Neobankbeat; United States; Remote; USD 167,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

401(k)

Medical insurance

Remote-friendly culture

Job summary

Coinbase in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to lead design and delivery of risk platform features end-to-end, with a focus on correctness, performance, and reliability.

You will collaborate with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams to build real-time decisioning engines and model-driven fraud detection, while mentoring engineers and driving incident response.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend software engineering experience in production environments.
• Proficiency in Go, Ruby, Python or Java.
• Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end with strong emphasis on correctness and performance.
• Drive architectural decisions for risk detection and mitigation systems.
• Collaborate with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams.
• Build AI-native risk systems leveraging agents to automate detection and response workflows.
• Mentor engineers, perform code reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
• Own system quality, incident response, and post-mortems to ensure reliability.

Skills

Go

Ruby

Python

Java

Distributed systems

Tools

Microservices

REST/GraphQL

Job description

Coinbase in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to lead design and delivery of risk platform features end-to-end, with a focus on correctness, performance, and reliability.

You will collaborate with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams to build real-time decisioning engines and model-driven fraud detection, while mentoring engineers and driving incident response.