Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, USDC)
About The Position
As a Senior Software Engineer on the USDC team within Coinbase's Institutional Product group, you will design, build, and scale systems that safely manage billions of dollars in loans across Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, Agency Lending, Bilateral Lending, and other financing products. Financing supports the Prime Brokerage business by enabling customers to use leverage on trading positions and generate yield on long holdings. You will own critical backend services that drive recurring revenue, increase trading activity, and keep institutional assets on the platform. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Employees are expected to meet quarterly for in-person working sessions called “surges.”
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend software engineering experience, including production ownership of services handling high-reliability or financial workloads.
- Proven experience 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 raise code quality across a team.
- Familiarity with relational data stores, gRPC/Protobuf, and observability tooling in a cloud-native environment.
- Responsible use of generative AI, with human oversight, to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Responsibilities
- Own the design and delivery of financing products and features, from architecture through production launch, ensuring correctness and safety in high-value lending operations.
- Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks for loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time position tracking.
- Improve developer tooling, testing infrastructure, monitoring, and operational reliability across financing systems.
- Partner with Product, Risk, Operations, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable, well-scoped technical solutions each quarter.
- Lead technical initiatives to strengthen system resilience, reduce operational risk, and help the team ship safely at speed.
- Mentor engineers, lead technical design reviews, and raise the bar on code quality across a team.
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 401(k)
- Potential equity and bonus eligibility
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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