Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, Financing)
$208K–$219K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only) - Experience
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
About the job
Design, build, and scale backend financing systems and products that manage institutional lending operations and support Coinbase’s Prime Brokerage business.
What you'll do
- Own financing product and feature delivery, from architecture through production launch.
- Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks for loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time position tracking.
- Improve tooling, testing, monitoring, reliability, and resilience; partner with cross-functional teams and lead technical initiatives.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, including production ownership of high-reliability or financial services.
- Experience designing, building, and scaling service-oriented architectures in Go, Java, or a comparable backend language.
- Experience operating distributed systems where correctness, availability, and data integrity are critical.
- Ability to mentor engineers, lead technical design reviews, and improve code quality.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with relational data stores, gRPC/Protobuf, and observability tooling in a cloud-native environment.
Pay
$207,955 — $218,900 USD annual base salary (excluding equity and bonus)
Tools
Go, Java, gRPC/Protobuf
AI focus
Use generative AI responsibly, with human oversight, to produce business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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