Staff Backend Architect — Enterprise Apps (Go, Cloud)

Coinbase; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase seeks an experienced architect to design and deliver distributed backend systems powering customer service and compliance platforms. You will set technical direction, define roadmaps, and mentor engineers to raise overall engineering quality.

You will lead end-to-end projects, leverage Go and cloud infrastructure, and guide teams through scalable, high-traffic services in a fast-paced fintech environment. This on-site Chicago role offers strong growth and impact.

Qualifications

• Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep proficiency in Go and experience building scalable, high-traffic backend services.
• Must have hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, DevOps tooling, and a proven track record of leading technical projects end-to-end.

Skills

Go

gRPC

TypeScript

React

Distributed Systems

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Kafka

GraphQL

SQL

NoSQL

CI/CD

Generative AI

System Architecture

Technical Mentorship

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Kafka

GraphQL

CI/CD

Job description

Coinbase seeks an experienced architect to design and deliver distributed backend systems powering customer service and compliance platforms. You will set technical direction, define roadmaps, and mentor engineers to raise overall engineering quality.

You will lead end-to-end projects, leverage Go and cloud infrastructure, and guide teams through scalable, high-traffic services in a fast-paced fintech environment. This on-site Chicago role offers strong growth and impact.