Role at a glance
- Salary
- $186.1K – $218.9K/yr
- Location
- Remote - US Remote - US - Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only)
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
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Role Summary
The Prediction Markets team is building backend infrastructure for Coinbase’s Everything Exchange, enabling users to trade on outcomes across sports, politics, crypto, and culture. The Senior Software Engineer will own core systems across the prediction-market lifecycle, including trading, resolution, settlement, payouts, and fund movement.
What You'll Do
- Own backend services from market creation and discovery through trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payout.
- Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for a real-time financial product.
- Drive reliability and performance through SLO ownership, observability, and incident response.
- Set technical standards through code, design reviews, and technical-debt reduction.
- Mentor engineers and partner with Product, Design, Institutional Markets, and Compliance on roadmap development.
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View full postingQualifications
5+ years of backend engineering experience; proficiency in Go, Ruby, Python, or Java; experience designing microservices, event-driven architectures, and high-availability systems; end-to-end delivery of production-grade distributed systems; experience in regulated or financial environments; experience making user-facing product decisions; responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.
Required
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
- Ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems
- Backend proficiency in Go, Ruby, Python, or Java
- Experience designing microservices, event-driven architectures, and high-availability systems
- End-to-end project delivery including scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration
- Experience building systems in a regulated or financial environment
- Experience making user-facing product decisions
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight
Original job description
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Original job description
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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.
Coinbase is building prediction markets as part of the Everything Exchange, letting millions of users trade on the outcomes of real-world events across sports, politics, crypto, and culture. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Prediction Markets team, you'll design and own the core backend systems that power the full market lifecycle: market creation and discovery, real-time market data, best-in-class trading and order management, oracle-driven market resolution, and settlement, payouts, and fund movement. It's a rare chance to build market infrastructure from the ground up, with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase.
What you’ll do:
- Own backend services end to end for prediction markets, from market creation and discovery through trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payout.
- Design low-latency, high-throughput systems for a real-time financial product used by millions of people.
- Drive reliability and performance, owning SLOs, observability, and incident response for systems serving millions of users.
- Set the technical bar through code, design reviews, and standards, and pay down the technical debt that matters most.
- Mentor engineers across the team and partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Institutional Markets, and Compliance to turn product and technical vision into roadmap.
Required skills and experience:
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems
- Deep proficiency in backend languages (Go, Ruby, Python, or Java) with hands-on experience designing microservices, event-driven architectures, and high-availability systems
- Track record of delivering projects end-to-end, including scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration
- Experience building systems in a regulated or financial environment where correctness, auditability, and low-latency performance are critical
- Experience making user-facing product decisions that balance engineering trade-offs with end-user quality, demonstrated through shipped products
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Position ID: P77070
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About the company
Coinbase
Large Enterprise
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, and manage digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has grown to serve millions of users globally, providing a secure and user-friendly experience for both novice and experienced traders. Coinbase aims to create an open financial system for the world, advocating for the adoption of digital currencies while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards in various markets. Through its innovative products and services, Coinbase seeks to empower individuals and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with confidence.
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, and manage digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has grown to serve millions of users globally, providing a secure and user-friendly experience for both novice and experienced traders. Coinbase aims to create an open financial system for the world, advocating for the adoption of digital currencies while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards in various markets. Through its innovative products and services, Coinbase seeks to empower individuals and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with confidence.