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# Senior Software Engineer (Institutional, Financing)

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software Quality, Data Integrity, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Protocol Buffers, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Datadog, Backend, Containerization
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_6f0f1858f149693df5bfef5e54969b18

## About the Role

* 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with production ownership of services handling high-reliability or financial workloads.
 * Proven track record designing, building, 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, lead technical design reviews, and raise the bar on code quality across a team.
 * Familiarity with relational data stores, gRPC/Protobuf, and observability tooling in a cloud-native environment.
 * Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

## Description

* Own the design and delivery of new financing products and features, from architecture through production launch, ensuring correctness and safety across high-value lending operations.
 * Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frameworks that support loan lifecycle management, risk calculations, and real-time position tracking.
 * Drive engineering excellence by improving developer tooling, testing infrastructure, monitoring, and operational reliability across financing systems.
 * Partner with Product, Risk, Operations, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable, well-scoped technical solutions each quarter.
 * Lead technical initiatives that strengthen system resilience, reduce operational risk, and support the team's ability to ship safely at speed.