Senior Software Engineer, Institutional, Financing

Coinbase

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Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$207,955–$218,900 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $170k
This role $213k
$108k most similar roles pay here $234k

This role pays more than 84% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$190,375 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $213k versus about $170k for comparable roles.

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About Coinbase

Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology

Coinbase currently has 89 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $186,065–$218,900 across 79 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Institutional, Financing

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Financing Engineering team within the Institutional group, you will design, build, and scale systems that manage billions of dollars in loans across Portfolio Margin, Trade Finance, Agency Lending, and Bilateral Lending. You will own critical backend services for loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time position tracking to support Prime Brokerage business functions like leverage and yield generation. Your daily work involves developing APIs, frameworks, and infrastructure while improving developer tooling and operational reliability. You will utilize Go, Java, or comparable languages alongside gRPC, Protobuf, and relational data stores in a cloud-native environment. The role requires expertise in distributed systems where correctness and data integrity are vital. You will also mentor engineers and lead technical design reviews to ensure high-quality code for these high-value lending operations.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $206300 from 364 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and deliver new financing products from initial architecture through production launch.
  • Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks for loan lifecycle management and risk calculations.
  • Develop systems for real-time position tracking and high-value lending operations.
  • Improve developer tooling, testing infrastructure, monitoring, and operational reliability across financing systems.
  • Translate business requirements from Product and Risk teams into scalable technical solutions.
  • Lead technical initiatives to strengthen system resilience and reduce operational risk.
  • Mentor engineers and lead technical design reviews to improve overall code quality.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with production ownership of high-reliability or financial workloads.
  • Proven track record designing 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 and lead technical design reviews.
  • Familiarity with relational data stores, gRPC/Protobuf, and observability tooling in a cloud-native environment.
  • Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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