Senior Software Engineer, Financing Platforms (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 208,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Financing Engineering team to design, build, and scale backend services that support billions in loans across Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, Agency Lending, and more. You will own the design and delivery of financing features, implement robust services, and mentor engineers to raise code quality.

You will collaborate with Product, Risk, and Operations to translate business needs into scalable solutions while advancing reliability and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with production ownership of services.
• Experience designing, building, and scaling service-oriented architectures in Go, Java, or a comparable backend language.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems where correctness, availability, and data integrity are critical.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, lead technical design reviews, and raise the bar on code quality across a team.
• Familiarity with relational data stores, gRPC/Protobuf, and observability tooling in a cloud-native environment.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of new financing products and features, from architecture through production launch, ensuring correctness and safety across high-value lending operations.
• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks that support loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time position tracking.
• Drive engineering excellence by improving developer tooling, testing infrastructure, monitoring, and operational reliability across financing systems.
• Partner with Product, Risk, Operations, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable, well-scoped technical solutions each quarter.
• Lead technical initiatives that strengthen system resilience, reduce operational risk, and support the team's ability to ship safely at speed.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go/Java

Distributed systems

Mentoring engineers

gRPC/Protobuf

Observability tooling

Generative AI use

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Financing Engineering team to design, build, and scale backend services that support billions in loans across Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, Agency Lending, and more. You will own the design and delivery of financing features, implement robust services, and mentor engineers to raise code quality.

You will collaborate with Product, Risk, and Operations to translate business needs into scalable solutions while advancing reliability and