Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Institutional - Exchange)

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Coinbase Exchange team within the Institutional group, you'll design, build, and operate the high-performance trading systems that power Coinbase's spot exchange. This team owns the customer-facing FIX, REST, and WebSocket APIs used by institutional and professional trading customers. You'll solve complex problems at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time financial infrastructure, and customer-facing products, directly shaping the reliability and performance of one of the world's largest crypto exchanges.

What you’ll do: 

• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency APIs and backend services that power order entry, market data, trade execution, and other real-time trading workflows on Coinbase Exchange.
• Own services end-to-end throughout their lifecycle, including technical design, implementation, deployment, observability, scaling, and production support, including participation in on-call rotations.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and operational readiness of distributed systems where availability, correctness, and latency are critical.
• Partner with Product, SRE, Security, and other engineering teams to translate customer and business needs into effective technical solutions.
• Drive engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, well-tested code, and mentorship that fosters a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Required skills and experience:

• 5+ years building and operating production backend or distributed systems in Java, Go, or a comparable backend language.
• Proven experience designing and scaling high-volume, performance-sensitive services with expertise in concurrency, event-driven architecture, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Experience with real-time or financial systems, market connectivity protocols such as FIX, or high-throughput messaging technologies such as Aeron or Kafka, or demonstrated experience that transfers to these areas.
• Track record of building customer-facing APIs using FIX, REST, WebSocket, or comparable protocols and operating services in cloud and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and event-driven or streaming data systems.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Position ID:  P78289

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