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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional -

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend services
  • 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
  • Comfort working in regulated, high-integrity domains such as identity, access control, KYC/AML

Responsibilities

  • Own backend services that move institutional clients from application to first trade
  • Drive onboarding automation including automated screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning
  • Lead design and implementation of Organizations Service as the source of truth for institutional client data
  • Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews and incident response

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Mentorship
  • Collaboration

About the company

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Coinbase

Computer Software / SaaS

Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryComputer Software / SaaS
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

You'll join the Client Lifecycle pillar within Institutional Foundations, the team that takes institutional clients from application to first trade and keeps them operating independently once they're live. You'll own core backend services spanning onboarding, provisioning, client data, and access controls, directly shaping how every institutional client gets onto Coinbase Prime.

What you'll do:

  • 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.

Required skills and experience:

  • 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.

Position ID:  P78291

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Pay Transparency Notice:Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)). 

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):$218,025—$256,500 USD
  • Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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