# Senior Software Engineer, Backend
**Company:** [Coinbase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/coinbase)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $186K-$219K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Ruby, Python, Java, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Distributed Systems, SLOs, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-06-26
> Senior backend engineer owning end-to-end services for prediction markets: market creation, real-time trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payouts. Requires 5+ years building low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems in regulated environments.
## Job Description
## 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.

## Required skills and experience
- 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
- Proven ability to partner across engineering, product, and business teams to translate ambiguous product requirements into well-scoped technical solutions
- High attention to detail and strong product taste. You care deeply about the quality of the end-user experience you're building.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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