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[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional -

🌍 Remote · United States 💼 Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a cryptocurrency and financial services company focused on increasing economic freedom. The Senior Software Engineer will own and develop backend services for institutional client onboarding, provisioning, client data, and access controls, while collaborating cross-functionally and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Skills

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

Benefits

  • Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility
  • Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))
  • Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company
  • Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Company Overview

  • Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies. It is a sub-organization of Coinbase. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.coinbase.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Coinbase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 56 in 2026, 181 in 2025, 92 in 2024, 96 in 2023, 284 in 2022, 183 in 2021, 66 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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