Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional -

Coinbase
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 218,025 - 256,500 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Mentorship","Design reviews","Incident response","Operational excellence","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Join the Client Lifecycle pillar within Institutional Foundations, building backend services that take institutional clients from application to first trade and help them operate independently on Coinbase Prime. You’ll own onboarding and provisioning systems, drive onboarding automation (screening, risk scoring, auto-provisioning), design an Organizations Service as the source of truth, and shape the access-control stack while partnering across Product, Compliance, and Onboarding Ops.

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Coinbase
Coinbase
2 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional -

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Job Summary

Join the Client Lifecycle pillar within Institutional Foundations, building backend services that take institutional clients from application to first trade and help them operate independently on Coinbase Prime. You’ll own onboarding and provisioning systems, drive onboarding automation (screening, risk scoring, auto-provisioning), design an Organizations Service as the source of truth, and shape the access-control stack while partnering across Product, Compliance, and Onboarding Ops.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own backend services that move institutional clients from application to first trade, including onboarding, KYC refresh, and provisioning.
  • •Build onboarding automation for automated screening, risk scoring, and auto-provisioning to reduce ops tickets.
  • •Design and implement Organizations Service as the source of truth for institutional client data, including data quality and entity uniqueness, and decouple from Salesforce.
  • •Partner with Product, Compliance, Onboarding Ops, Identity, and Prime teams to ship onboarding and access controls for new products.
  • •Shape the access-control stack (roles, permissions, policies, and consensus) and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar through design reviews and incident response.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 218,025 - 256,500 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401k

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years 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.
  • •Write well-tested, production-grade code with high test coverage and strong structured code review habits.
  • •Experience working in regulated, high-integrity domains such as identity, access control, KYC/AML, or financial onboarding.
  • •Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Experience:5+ yearsFinancial servicesInstitutional clientsKYC/AMLIdentity & access management
Skills:MentorshipDesign reviewsIncident responseOperational excellenceCross-functional collaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoGRPCProtobufRelational data storesObservability toolingSalesforceGenerative AIKYCAMLAccess controlsOnboarding automation

Company Brief

Coinbase
Operates a cryptocurrency exchange and financial services platform that enables buying, selling, storing, and earning crypto assets, institutional trading, custody, and developer tools for blockchain applications.
Industry: Trading Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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