Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Frontend – Risk Platform

at Coinbase

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer, Frontend – Risk Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $180,625 - $212,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Kafka, React, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer providing technical leadership and guiding junior engineers in developing fraud detection systems for Coinbase's Risk Platform. Engaging in end-to-end project management and architectural decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for end-to-end projects while driving architectural decisions that shape risk detection and mitigation systems
• Manage complex projects from inception to production
• Mentor junior engineers
• Establish technical standards that elevate the team's capabilities
• Author, review, and approve technical design documents for complex features and systems
• Provide technical leadership for the delivery of end-to-end projects including implementation, deployment, and monitoring
• Design, scope, and significantly contribute to building new systems and/or major features
• Transform high-level intent and ambiguous business requirements into working architectures
• Proactively improve code quality and address technical debt across the team's code bases
• Build systems or features that accelerate the team's ability to deliver high-quality work
• Ensure solutions are workable for teams inside and outside your function

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a track record of delivering complex systems
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and mentor other engineers
• Deep expertise in at least one frontend framework (React, TypeScript)
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems in production
• Strong understanding of system design, architecture patterns, and trade-offs
• Proven ability to work with ambiguous requirements and drive technical clarity
• Experience leading incident response and conducting post-mortems
• Experience with risk, fraud detection, or financial systems at scale (preferred)
• Knowledge of machine learning models in production environments (preferred)
• Experience with real-time event processing and streaming architectures (Kafka, Flink) (preferred)
• Understanding of payment systems (ACH, cards, crypto) and associated fraud patterns (preferred)
• Experience with regulatory compliance and security requirements (preferred)
• Track record of improving team productivity through tooling and process improvements (preferred)

Benefits

• bonus eligibility
• equity eligibility
• benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k))