Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Coinbase

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $186,065–$218,900 / yr
Posted: 13 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today

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This role pays more than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $155,250–$216,856 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $202k versus about $186k for comparable roles.

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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 94 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $191,250–$218,900 across 85 roles with salary data.

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The Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Retail DEX) joins the Retail DEX team within the Consumer & Business group. This role involves building software systems that bridge off-chain and onchain worlds to provide a unified trading experience for assets on blockchains like Base and Solana. Key responsibilities include integrating new blockchains and decentralized exchanges, designing first-party smart contracts for DEX aggregation and advanced order types, and scaling real-time data pipelines to handle over 100K messages per second. The engineer will optimize the trading stack for execution quality and drive agentic-first development patterns. Required technical skills include experience with Kafka, Clickhouse, Starrocks, Temporal, and Redis, as well as designing onchain smart contracts on EVM or Solana. The role also requires utilizing generative AI for workflow efficiency.

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Skills

Kafka Clickhouse Starrocks Temporal Redis EVM Solana Smart Contracts Data Pipelines DEX Base Ethereum

What you'll do

Integrate new blockchains, decentralized exchanges, and launchpads into the main Coinbase app.
Design and implement first-party smart contracts for onchain trading primitives and advanced order types.
Scale real-time data pipelines to handle over 100,000 messages per second with millisecond latency.
Optimize the trading stack to deliver faster execution and optimal fills for DEX traders.
Drive iteration on agentic-first development patterns to build self-improving software systems and tooling.
Build and operate data-intensive systems using infrastructure like Kafka, Clickhouse, and Redis.

What we're looking for

5+ years of experience in backend software engineering building and operating production data systems or pipelines.
Hands-on experience designing data-intensive systems and integrating with infrastructure like Kafka, Clickhouse, Starrocks, Temporal, and Redis.
Proven experience designing and integrating with onchain smart contracts on EVM (Ethereum, Base) or Solana.
Deep understanding of the programming models of one or more of the EVM or Solana virtual machines.
Demonstrated ability to build and improve agentic-first code repositories and software systems in production environments.
Experience utilizing generative AI responsibly to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency.

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