Staff 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. We're building the full regulated stack in-house: our own exchange clearing and settlement infrastructure. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Prediction Markets team you'll design and own the core backend systems that power market discovery best-in-class trading experiences order management market resolution and settlement. 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 the design development and reliability of backend systems that power order management trade matching settlement and market resolution for prediction markets
• Architect distributed systems that enforce strict correctness guarantees across clearing payout and position management workflows
• Drive the technical strategy for migrating from third-party venue participation to a fully Coinbase-operated exchange and clearing platform
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product Compliance and Risk teams to ensure the platform meets regulatory requirements and launches with confidence
• Shape engineering standards and practices across the Prediction Markets team setting a high bar for code quality system design and operational rigor
• Partner with engineers across Consumer & Business to identify shared infrastructure opportunities and reduce duplication across trading surfaces

Required skills and experience:

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of high-availability low-latency distributed systems in production
• Proven track record designing systems where financial correctness is non-negotiable such as order management settlement clearing or ledger systems
• Experience leading complex multi-quarter technical projects as the senior technical decision-maker including architecture design trade-off analysis and cross-team coordination
• Deep proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g. Go Java or similar) and strong fundamentals in distributed systems concurrency and data modeling
• Track record of mentoring and elevating engineers across a team raising standards for design reviews code quality and incident response
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency cost and quality.

Position ID:  P77078

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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.

Why Work With Us

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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