Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Prediction Markets)

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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

• 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 respon