Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Prediction Markets)
Remote (Worldwide)RemotePosted Today$186,065 – $218,900
Full TimeSeniorRemote
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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
Key Highlights
- Own backend services end to end for prediction markets, from market creation and discovery through trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payout.
- Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for a real-time financial product used by millions of people.
- Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident response for systems serving millions of users.
- Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay down the technical debt that matters most.
- Mentor engineers across the team and partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Institutional Markets, and Compliance to turn product and technical vision into roadmap.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems
- Deep proficiency in backend languages (Go, Ruby, Python, or Java) with hands-on experience designing microservices, event-driven architectures, and high-availability systems
- Track record of delivering projects end-to-end, including scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration
- Experience building systems in a regulated or financial environment where correctness, auditability, and low-latency performance are critical
- Experience making user-facing product decisions that balance engineering trade-offs with end-user quality, demonstrated through shipped products
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Skills & Technologies
GoRubyPythonJava
About the Company
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range
$186,065 – $218,900
Location
Remote (Worldwide)
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
Today