Staff Backend Engineer, Identity IDV Platform Architect

Coinbase, Inc.; Springfield (IL); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own the multi-year technical vision for the identity verification platform (IDV) within Platform. This role leads architecture, vendor orchestration, and scalable verification infrastructure across global products.

You will drive consolidation to a single decision-engine-driven platform, retire legacy paths, and enable self-serve configuration for new products, regions, and modalities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend experience in fintech or regulated environments.
• Leadership in end-to-end design and delivery of complex backend systems.
• Deep expertise in scalability, reliability, and API/data-model design.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture and direction for Coinbase IDV platform.
• Lead platform consolidation onto a single decision-engine-driven platform.
• Design vendor-agnostic orchestration with real-time routing and failover.

Skills

Backend architecture

Go programming

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

gRPC

Tools

Go

gRPC

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own the multi-year technical vision for the identity verification platform (IDV) within Platform. This role leads architecture, vendor orchestration, and scalable verification infrastructure across global products.

You will drive consolidation to a single decision-engine-driven platform, retire legacy paths, and enable self-serve configuration for new products, regions, and modalities.