Senior Backend Engineer, Risk Platform (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk), to build and optimize real-time risk systems protecting millions of users. You will lead complex features end-to-end, shaping architectures that balance fraud prevention with user experience and collaborate across Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability, and guide incident response while advancing scalable, high-availability backend systems at a remote-first

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience delivering complex, high-impact systems in production.
• Proficiency in backend languages (Go, Ruby, Python or Java) with experience designing distributed microservices and REST/GraphQL APIs.
• Experience translating ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans and architectures; leading cross-functional teams.
• Proven track record leading end-to-end projects with long-term impact, including scoping, design, implementation, and mentoring.
• Experience leading incident response, post-mortems, and driving improvements in high-availability systems.
• Knowledge of responsible AI usage to support automated workflows with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Drive architectural decisions shaping risk detection and mitigation systems balancing fraud prevention with user experience.
• Partner with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance to build proactive and reactive risk solutions.
• Build AI-native risk systems that automate detection and response workflows.
• Mentor engineers, perform code reviews, write design documents, and promote engineering best practices.
• Own system quality and incident response, leading post-mortems and reliability improvements.

Skills

Go

Ruby

Python

Java

Distributed systems

REST APIs

GraphQL

Architectural design

Incident response

AI/ML basics

Tools

Microservices

Event-driven architectures

Job description

Coinbase seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Risk), to build and optimize real-time risk systems protecting millions of users. You will lead complex features end-to-end, shaping architectures that balance fraud prevention with user experience and collaborate across Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability, and guide incident response while advancing scalable, high-availability backend systems at a remote-first