Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Consumer, Prediction Markets

Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer for Coinbase building backend systems for Prediction Markets, ensuring high reliability and performance. Driving technical vision and mentoring engineers in a remote-first environment.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $186,065 - $218,900 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoJavaMicroservicesOraclePythonRuby

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Proven ability to partner across engineering, product, and business teams to translate ambiguous product requirements into well-scoped technical solutions
High attention to detail and strong product taste. You care deeply about the quality of the end-user experience you're building.
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical
dental
vision
401(k)

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend engineeringGoRubyPythonJavamicroservicesevent-driven architecturehigh-availability systemslow-latency performancedistributed systems

Soft Skills

mentoringcross-functional collaborationattention to detailproduct tasteincident responsetechnical ownershipdesign reviewscommunicationproblem-solvingproject delivery