Senior Backend Engineer, Risk & Fraud (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Augusta (ME); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to lead the design and delivery of advanced fraud and risk platforms at crypto-market scale. You will collaborate across Data Science, ML, Risk, Product, and Compliance to build proactive and reactive risk solutions.

The role focuses on end-to-end ownership, architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers, with emphasis on correctness, performance, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend experience in production environments.
• Deep proficiency in backend languages (Go, Ruby, Python, or Java).
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous requirements into technical plans.
• Experience leading end-to-end projects and mentoring engineers.
• Experience leading incident response and post-mortems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end from architecture to deployment.
• 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 and automate detection and response workflows.
• Mentor engineers, review code, and promote engineering best practices.
• Own system quality and drive improvements in high-availability systems.

Skills

Backend experience

Go/Ruby/Python/Java

End-to-end leadership

Incident response leadership

AI integration awareness

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to lead the design and delivery of advanced fraud and risk platforms at crypto-market scale. You will collaborate across Data Science, ML, Risk, Product, and Compliance to build proactive and reactive risk solutions.

The role focuses on end-to-end ownership, architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers, with emphasis on correctness, performance, and reliability.