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

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Little Rock, AR, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $218,025.0 - $256,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Software Quality, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Concurrency, Backend, Low Latency
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/6C6E0848532348D285CE18DC3C7F6024/job/

## About the Role

* 8+ years of backend software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of high-availability, low-latency distributed systems in production
 * Proven track record designing systems where financial correctness is non-negotiable, such as order management, settlement, clearing, or ledger systems
 * Experience leading complex, multi-quarter technical projects as the senior technical decision-maker, including architecture design, trade-off analysis, and cross-team coordination
 * Deep proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Go, Java, or similar) and strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, and data modeling
 * Track record of mentoring and elevating engineers across a team, raising standards for design reviews, code quality, and incident response
 * 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. We're building the full regulated stack in-house: our own exchange, clearing, and settlement infrastructure. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Prediction Markets team, you'll design and own the core backend systems that power market discovery, best-in-class trading experiences, order management, market resolution, and settlement. 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 the design, development, and reliability of backend systems that power order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution for prediction markets
 * Architect distributed systems that enforce strict correctness guarantees across clearing, payout, and position management workflows
 * Drive the technical strategy for migrating from third-party venue participation to a fully Coinbase-operated exchange and clearing platform
 * Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Compliance, and Risk teams to ensure the platform meets regulatory requirements and launches with confidence
 * Shape engineering standards and practices across the Prediction Markets team, setting a high bar for code quality, system design, and operational rigor
 * Partner with engineers across Consumer & Business to identify shared infrastructure opportunities and reduce duplication across trading surfaces


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