Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Prediction Markets)

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, architect