Senior Backend Software Engineer (Institutional)

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to own and evolve the institutional onboarding stack, from application to first trade, scaling backend services that handle onboarding, provisioning and data access controls.

You will drive automated onboarding workflows, implement the Organizations Service as the truth source for client data, and collaborate with Compliance, Product and Onboarding Ops to deliver secure, scalable access for Prime products.

Qualifications

• Proven production-grade code with high test coverage and structured code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services spanning onboarding, provisioning, and client data for institutional clients.
• Lead backend design for the Organizations Service as the source of truth for client data and Salesforce decoupling.
• Drive onboarding automation (screening, risk scoring, auto-provisioning) to reduce manual ops work.
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards through design reviews and incident response.

Skills

Go

gRPC/Protobuf

Relational DBs

Observability tooling

Backend design

Job description

• You’ll join the Client Lifecycle pillar within Institutional Foundations, the team that takes institutional clients from application to first trade and keeps them operating independently once they’re live


• You’ll own core backend services spanning onboarding, provisioning, client data, and access controls, directly shaping how every institutional client gets onto Coinbase Prime


• Own backend services that move institutional clients from application to first trade, including Unified Business Onboarding, KYC Refresh, and provisioning


• Drive onboarding automation including automated screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning so low-risk clients complete onboarding without an ops ticket


• Lead design and implementation of Organizations Service as the source of truth for institutional client data, including data quality, entity uniqueness, and Salesforce decoupling


• Partner with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime product teams to ship onboarding and access controls for new products including FCM, Hudson derivatives, and Prime Custody


• Shape the access-control stack (roles, permissions, policies, and consensus) so complex institutions can operate on Prime without opening a ticket


• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, incident response, and operational excellence

Demonstrated practice of writing well-tested, production-grade code with high test coverage and structured code review habitsUtilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and qualityComfort working in regulated, high-integrity domains such as identity, access control, KYC/AML, or financial onboardingProduction experience with Go (or similar), gRPC/Protobuf, relational data stores, and observability tooling5+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend services in a service-oriented architecture