Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, Financing)

Coinbase, Inc.; Boise (ID); Híbrido; USD 208.000 - 219.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer to own the design and delivery of new financing features, from architecture through production launch, with focus on safety in high-value lending workloads.

You will build and operate distributed services and APIs supporting loan lifecycle, risk calculations, and real-time position tracking, while mentoring engineers and elevating code quality across the team.

Formación

• 5+ years of backend software engineering with production ownership.
• Experience designing and scaling service-oriented architectures.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems with high reliability.
• Mentor engineers and lead design reviews.
• Familiarity with relational stores, gRPC/Protobuf, and observability tooling.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight.

Responsabilidades

• Own the design and delivery of backend financing-related features from architecture through production launch.
• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks for loan lifecycle management and risk.
• Improve tooling, testing, monitoring, and reliability across financing systems.
• Collaborate with Product, Risk, Operations, and other engineering teams to translate requirements.
• Lead technical initiatives to strengthen resilience and safe shipping at speed.

Conocimientos

Backend experience

Go/Java

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Relational data stores

gRPC/Protobuf

Observability tooling

AI tooling usage

Technical leadership

Descripción del empleo

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase

What you'll do:

• 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.

Required skills and experience:

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with production ownership of services handling high-reliability or financial workloads.

• Proven track record 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.

Position ID: P78165

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*Pay Transparency Notice:** *Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$207,955—$218,900 USD

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