About this role

▸about Coinbase — company background

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

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.