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# Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Prediction Markets)

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Springfield, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $186,065.0 - $218,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Audit Trail, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Oracle (Applications), Ruby, Technical Debt, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/B97C9921E4D94AB8BEA9E5337FC25C64/job/

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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.


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