Senior Backend Engineer, Risk & Fraud Systems
Coinbase, Inc.
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Job summary
Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to design and build risk systems at crypto-market scale. You will lead end-to-end features, drive architecture, and partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, and Compliance to deliver real-time fraud detection and risk management.
You will mentor engineers, champion reliability, and address technical debt while using AI responsibly to improve workflow efficiency.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of backend software engineering in production.
- Proficiency in Go, Ruby, Python or Java and distributed systems.
- Translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans.
- Lead end-to-end projects with design, implementation and mentoring.
- Experience in incident response and post-mortems for high-availability systems.
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.
Responsibilities
- Lead design and delivery of risk platform features end-to-end.
- Shape risk systems with scalable architectures balancing fraud prevention.
- Collaborate with Data Science, ML, Risk, Product, and Compliance teams.
- Build AI-native risk systems reducing manual intervention.
- Mentor engineers, code reviews, design docs, and best practices.
- Drive reliability via debt reduction, incident response and post-mortems.
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Job description
Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk) to design and build risk systems at crypto-market scale. You will lead end-to-end features, drive architecture, and partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, and Compliance to deliver real-time fraud detection and risk management.
You will mentor engineers, champion reliability, and address technical debt while using AI responsibly to improve workflow efficiency.
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