This role pays more than
55%
of similar roles. Most pay
$151,000–$224,100
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$202k
versus about
$188k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Coinbase
Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology
Coinbase currently has
58 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$215,177–$253,150
across 50 roles with salary data.
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Tokens & Wrapped Assets) joins the Tokens & Wrapped Assets team within the Platform organization to build and operate the infrastructure for issuing, wrapping, and transforming assets across Ethereum, Base, and Solana. This role involves owning complex projects end-to-end, from smart contract deployment through API design and production rollout. The engineer will develop Go services and smart contracts to mint, burn, bridge, and reconcile wrapped assets while improving asset transformation and migration pipelines. Key responsibilities include leading on-call ownership for Tier-0 systems, building observability, and coaching junior engineers. Required expertise includes five years of software engineering experience, proficiency in Go, hands-on blockchain experience with Solidity or EVM, and mastery of distributed systems patterns like event-driven architectures and data reconciliation to ensure correctness across on-chain and off-chain systems.
Java
Spring Boot
Microservices
AWS
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
Kafka
event driven architecture
Distributed Systems
API Design
System Design
Cloud Native
Data Storage
Caching
High Availability
Scalability
Observability
SEC
FINRA
GDPR