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Design, build, and scale backend services in Golang powering onboarding and KYC across products and regions. Own end-to-end delivery, improve onboarding conversion via data-driven changes, lead cross-cutting design reviews, and ensure security, operational integrity, and scalable architecture for rapid global expansion.
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As a Senior Software Engineer on the Onboarding team, you'll build the systems that power user onboarding and KYC across every Coinbase product and market. This team enables Coinbase to launch in new countries and ship new products quickly while meeting compliance and regulatory requirements. You'll own backend services that drive onboarding conversion at global scale and shape the architecture that makes rapid expansion possible.
What you'll do:
- Own the design, development, and scaling of backend services in Golang that power onboarding and KYC workflows across multiple products and geographies.
- Build scalable, service-oriented systems using modern cloud infrastructure and industry best practices to solve novel platform challenges.
- Drive improvements to onboarding and MTU conversion funnels by identifying bottlenecks and shipping data-informed solutions.
- Partner with engineers, product managers, designers, and senior leadership to translate product and technical vision into quarterly execution roadmaps.
- Lead cross-cutting design reviews within your product area, ensuring security, operational integrity, and architectural clarity across all features shipped.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building, scaling, and maintaining production backend services in a service-oriented architecture.
- Proven track record designing distributed systems that operate reliably at scale, including experience with cloud-native tooling (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP).
- Proficiency in Golang or a similar statically-typed language, with demonstrated ability to write well-tested, production-grade code.
- Experience owning end-to-end delivery of platform capabilities, from technical design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- 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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Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
$191,100—$191,100 SGD
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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