Coinbase
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Retail DEX)
$186K–$219K
Remote - USA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
Remote - Canada - Experience
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate backend systems for Coinbase’s retail onchain trading, integrating blockchains and smart contracts while improving data processing and trade execution.
What you'll do
- Integrate blockchains, decentralized exchanges, and launchpads into the Coinbase app.
- Design and implement smart contracts for onchain trading, including DEX aggregation and advanced order types.
- Scale real-time market-data pipelines and optimize the trading stack for execution speed, fills, and asset coverage.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, including production data systems or pipelines.
- Hands-on experience designing data-intensive systems and integrating with large-scale data infrastructure.
- Experience designing and integrating onchain smart contracts on EVM (Ethereum, Base) or Solana, with a deep understanding of at least one virtual machine’s programming model.
- Experience building and improving agentic-first code repositories and production software systems; responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.
Pay
$186,065 — $218,900 USD (base salary)
Tools
Kafka, Clickhouse, Starrocks, Temporal, Redis, EVM, Ethereum, Solana
AI focus
Develop agentic-first software systems and tooling, and use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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