[Remote] Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, Financing)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a remote-first company focused on increasing economic freedom and building the future of finance. The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and scale backend systems that manage institutional financing and billions of dollars in loans, while improving reliability, safety, and operational efficiency.

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

• 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

Benefits

• Equity eligibility
• Bonus eligibility
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• 401(k)
• Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges”

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