Own backend services for institutional clients at Coinbase, driving automation and data management in a remote-first environment.
Posted by employer 1 week ago
First seen on Joblaze 10 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 10 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own backend services for institutional client onboarding
- Drive onboarding automation including automated screening
- Lead design and implementation of Organizations Service
- Partner with various teams to ship onboarding and access controls
- Shape the access-control stack for complex institutions
Must have
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend services
- Production experience with Go (or similar), gRPC/Protobuf
- Demonstrated practice of writing well-tested, production-grade code
- Comfort working in regulated, high-integrity domains
AI in the day-to-day
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will manage backend services that facilitate the onboarding of institutional clients, ensuring a smooth transition from application to first trade. Key skills include proficiency in Go, gRPC, and relational databases, along with a strong focus on writing high-quality, tested code. This position is ideal for experienced engineers with a background in regulated environments, particularly those familiar with identity and access control. The team operates within a fast-paced environment, emphasizing collaboration across various product and compliance teams.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze September 23, 2026. Last confirmed on Coinbase's careers page September 23, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 97% of 106 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list Go we track (median $167,500 across 42 companies). See Go salary trends
- Go appears in 29.4% of 480 comparable senior backend roles in United States; Protobuf appears in 0.6% of 480 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - role remote?
- Yes — Coinbase lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $218,025–$256,500 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Go, Protobuf, gRPC, observability tooling, relational data stores.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - role at Coinbase.
From the original posting
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. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
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.
What you'll do:
- 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.
Required skills and experience:
- 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.
Position ID: P78291
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