Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Prediction Markets)

Coinbase

19h•$186,065 - $218,900•Hybrid

About The Position

Coinbase is building prediction markets as part of the Everything Exchange, letting millions of users trade on the outcomes of real-world events across sports, politics, crypto, and culture. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Prediction Markets team, you'll design and own the core backend systems that power the full market lifecycle: market creation and discovery, real-time market data, best-in-class trading and order management, oracle-driven market resolution, and settlement, payouts, and fund movement. It's a rare chance to build market infrastructure from the ground up, with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Requirements

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
Proven ability to partner across engineering, product, and business teams to translate ambiguous product requirements into well-scoped technical solutions
High attention to detail and strong product taste. You care deeply about the quality of the end-user experience you're building.
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

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.