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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. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Prediction Markets team, you'll design and own the core backend systems that power the full market lifecycle: market creation and discovery, real-time market data, best-in-class trading and order management, oracle-driven market resolution, and settlement, payouts, and fund movement. 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 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.
Position ID: P77070
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- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience with ownership of complex, production-grade distributed systems
- Proficiency in backend languages: Go, Ruby, Python, or Java
- Hands-on experience designing microservices and event-driven architectures
- Experience building high-availability, low-latency, high-throughput systems
- Experience in a regulated or financial environment emphasizing correctness and auditability
- Track record delivering projects end-to-end: scoping, architecture, implementation, monitoring, iteration
- Experience owning SLOs, observability, and incident response for production systems
- Proven ability to partner across engineering, product, and business teams to translate ambiguous requirements
- High attention to detail and strong product taste
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly with human oversight
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Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy, and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets, including trading, staking, safekeeping, spending, and fast, free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community, we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.
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We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world, to help people control their own wealth, start companies, have financial privacy, and participate in the global economy. And to get us there, we focus, build and move as a team.
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