[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Prediction Markets)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a leading company in the financial technology space, focusing on increasing economic freedom through innovative solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Prediction Markets team, you will design and manage core backend systems for trading real-world event outcomes, ensuring high performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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

Benefits

• Equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))

Company Overview

Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies. It is a sub-organization of Coinbase. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.coinbase.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Coinbase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 56 in 2026, 181 in 2025, 92 in 2024, 96 in 2023, 284 in 2022, 183 in 2021, 66 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.