Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, USDC)
Coinbase · Remote - USA
About this role
**Ready to do the most impactful work of your career?** At Coinbase, we’re uncompromising about our mission to increase economic freedom. This is a remote-first (but not remote-only) environment—expect to meet quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called **“surges.”** --- ## Role Overview As a **Senior Software Engineer** on the **USDC** team within the **Institutional** Product group, you’ll design, build, and scale systems that safely manage **billions of dollars in loans** across Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, Agency Lending, Bilateral Lending, and more. You’ll own critical backend services that drive recurring revenue, increase trading activity, and help keep institutional assets on platform. --- ## What you’ll do - Own the design and delivery of new financing products and features—from architecture through production launch—ensuring correctness and safety across high-value lending operations. - Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks for loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time position tracking. - Drive engineering excellence by improving developer tooling, testing infrastructure, monitoring, and operational reliability across financing systems. - Partner with Product, Risk, Operations, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable, well-scoped technical solutions each quarter. - Lead technical initiatives that strengthen system resilience, reduce operational risk, and support safe shipping at speed. --- ## Required skills and experience - **5+ years** of backend software engineering experience, with production ownership of services handling high-reliability or financial workloads. - Proven track record 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 the bar on code quality. - Familiarity with relational data stores, **gRPC/Protobuf**, and observability tooling in a cloud-native environment. - Uses generative AI responsibly—maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality. --- ## Position details - **Position ID:** P78165 - **Location:** #LI-Remote --- ## Pay transparency (annual base salary range) - **$207,955 – $218,900 USD** (excluding equity and bonus) --- ## Additional notes - **Application limit:** Candidates may submit a maximum of **3 applications within a 6-month period**. - **Equal Opportunity Employer:** Coinbase considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. - **Accommodations:** If you need a reasonable accommodation, email **accommodations[at]coinbase.com**.
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