Coinbase

Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, Financing)

Remote - USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$208k-$219kDetected 3 days ago
JavaGoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentgRPCLLMs

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64Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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Green-card filing pattern in this occupation

Context, not a finding about this posting: of this employer's 9 green-card filings in this occupation, 100% were for a worker who already held the job.

Green-card follow-through: 56%

Of 9 labor certifications old enough to have been used, 4 expired without the employer filing the next step. Median time from filing to decision: 486 days.100% of their filings were for a worker who already held the job.Only certifications past the 180-day window are counted — recent ones cannot have expired yet.

Files H-1B transfers

40 transfer filings in the last year, covering 40 workers. Median labor-condition decision: 7 days. An employer that already files transfers is one that can take over an existing H-1B.

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About the role

  • Ready to do the most impactful work of your career?
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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 that support 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 the team's ability to ship safely at speed.
  • 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 across a team.
  • Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
  • If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with production ownership of services handling high-reliability or financial workloads.
  • Familiarity with relational data stores, gRPC/Protobuf, and observability tooling in a cloud-native environment.
  • Required skills and experience:

Compensation

  • $207,955 - $218,900 USD
  • Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below).
  • Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
  • Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

Benefits

  • Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
  • Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

Company info

  • At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
  • Financing is foundational to the Prime Brokerage business, enabling customers to use leverage on trading positions and generate yield on long holdings.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer:
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