Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, Financing)

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Financing Engineering team within the Institutional group at Coinbase, you'll design, build, and scale systems managing billions of dollars in loans across Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, Agency Lending, Bilateral Lending, and more. Financing is foundational to Prime Brokerage, enabling customers to use leverage on trading positions and generate yield on holdings. You will own critical backend services that drive recurring revenue, increase trading activity, and secure institutional assets.

Coinbase is remote-first, with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges."

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 supporting 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 technical solutions.
• Lead technical initiatives that strengthen system resilience, reduce operational risk, and support rapid, safe deployments.

Requirements

• 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 elevate code quality across a team.
• Familiarity with relational data stores, gRPC/Protobuf, and observability tooling in a cloud-native environment.
• Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Application Rules

• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.