The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
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
What they're looking for
- + 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
