Senior Software Engineer, Backend; Institutional - Markets

Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of?

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up.

We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In‑person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company‑wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

Without us, crypto is just a white paper. We make it real. Coinbase Institutional builds cutting‑edge platforms that allow thousands of the world’s largest financial institutions to trade, custody, and participate in the global cryptoeconomy. From launching industry “firsts” to scaling secure infrastructure for hundreds of digital assets, we provide the trusted gateways for staking, governance, and web
3. Whether it’s prime brokerage or international markets, we are building the scalable tech and seamless UI that empowers the biggest players on the planet to move money forward.

Join us, and build the infrastructure for what’s next.

The Markets Derivatives team is responsible for developing and managing the core systems powering both Coinbase’s US Derivatives and International Exchanges, including Matching Engines, Order Management System, FIX, REST, and Market Data gateways as well as a diverse set of products and services for a wide range of customer segments. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join a talented and growing engineering team that tackles some of the most demanding scale and performance challenges across the company as they deliver on an ambitious product roadmap designed to establish Coinbase as the leading and most trusted crypto platform globally.

• Build and enhance services to meet critical product and business needs using Java, Golang and RDS Postgres.
• Design scalable high volume and low‑latency systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
• Work with other engineers, designers and product managers to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• Maintain production services and Database infrastructure.

• You have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained critical low‑latency production services, and know how to compose a service‑oriented architecture.
• You’ve good awareness of at least one of the major SQL or No‑SQL databases – Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle, Mongo
  
  DB – and interest in optimizing and maintaining them.
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.

• Domain experience with crypto, derivatives or other financial products.
• You know what high quality code looks like and know how to foster an environment that maintains a high quality bar.
• Execution focused with an ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Experience architecting complex distributed systems  have built trading systems or matching engines that have high volume and low latency characteristics.
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid‑size).
• You’ve worked with Java, Docker,…