Senior Backend Software Engineer

Who you are

• 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

What the job involves

• 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
• 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