Software Engineer - Compliance CXAE

About the role

This role involves end-to-end development of user-facing features for a compliance agent platform. You will be responsible for taking designs through to production deployment, utilizing technologies such as Golang, React, and various cloud services. The work focuses on building AI-first applications aimed at enhancing compliance processes and improving customer interactions.

A key aspect of this position is the assessment and implementation of third-party tools and vendor integrations to expand platform capabilities and accelerate delivery. You will collaborate closely with product, design, security, and data teams to develop comprehensive solutions for complex compliance and customer experience challenges, ensuring cross-functional alignment and effective problem-solving.

Success in this role means building and maintaining scalable, high-traffic services, which includes leveraging event-driven architectures, caching, and load balancing across AWS and Kubernetes. You will also contribute to raising the team's technical quality by mentoring other engineers on design patterns, coding standards, testing, and deployment best practices.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $152,405 to $179,300 USD, with total compensation potentially including equity and bonus eligibility.

Skills that matter here

• Golang: This role requires using Golang for backend development of user-facing features and scalable services.
• React: React is used for developing the frontend of the compliance agent platform's user-facing features.
• AWS: You will build and maintain scalable services leveraging AWS infrastructure, including Kubernetes.
• Kubernetes: This role involves deploying and managing high-traffic services within a Kubernetes environment on AWS.
• Terraform: Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools is required for managing cloud resources.
• SQL: Proficiency in SQL or NoSQL databases is necessary for managing data within distributed systems.

Who this role suits

• Someone with at least two years of experience building large-scale, user-facing systems.
• An individual who can contribute to technical architecture decisions and communicate complex concepts clearly.
• A person comfortable working in a remote-first environment that includes quarterly in-person working sessions.
• A developer with hands-on experience in distributed systems patterns like rate limiters, caching, and event-driven architectures.

From the employer

• Own end-to-end development of user-facing features across the compliance agent platform using Golang, React, and cloud technologies, from design through production deployment.
• Lead assessment, selection, and implementation of third-party tools and vendor integrations that extend platform capabilities and accelerate delivery.
• Partner with product, design, security, and data teams to deliver cross-functional solutions to complex compliance and CX problems.
• Build and maintain scalable, high-traffic services leveraging event-driven architectures, caching, load balancing, and observability tooling across AWS and Kubernetes.
• Mentor engineers on design patterns, coding standards, testing strategies, and deployment best practices to raise the overall quality bar for the team.

• 2+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale, user-facing systems with Golang, React, and cloud technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems patterns including rate limiters, circuit breakers, caching, load balancing, and event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ, or similar), plus proficiency in SQL or NoSQL databases.
• Demonstrated ability to author and contribute to technical architecture decisions, translating complex technical concepts into clear documentation and communication for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

• Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $152,405—$179,300 USD.
• 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.