Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Fullstack

Coinbase

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$186,065–$218,900 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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This role pays more than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $166,075–$225,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $202k versus about $196k 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 93 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $186,065–$218,900 across 84 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Fullstack

The Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Fullstack (Coinbase Advisor - Agentic Trading) joins the Coinbase Advisor team within the Consumer & Business group. This backend-focused role involves owning services that power an AI advisor capable of providing personalized financial advice and executing trades. You will build integrations with trading APIs, develop an agentic harness featuring tool calling, orchestration, and persistent state, and shape agent behavior through prompt engineering and conversation analysis. The role requires improving service reliability, latency, and execution safety while partnering with various internal teams to ship capabilities within regulatory guardrails. Required skills include five years of professional software engineering experience, proficiency in Go, and expertise in distributed systems, API design, data modeling, and building production LLM or agentic systems to solve complex trading automation problems.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

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What you'll do

  • Own backend services for Coinbase Advisor and Strategies from technical design through launch and operation.
  • Build integrations with trading APIs to ensure correct and auditable execution of agent recommendations.
  • Develop the agentic harness including tool calling, orchestration, persistent state, and failure recovery.
  • Shape agent behavior through prompt engineering, evaluations, and conversation analysis.
  • Improve service reliability, latency, observability, and execution safety safeguards.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to ship customer-facing capabilities within regulatory guardrails.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep backend expertise.
  • Proven track record of shipping and operating production services.
  • Strong experience with API design, distributed systems, data modeling, testing, and debugging production failures.
  • Proficiency in Go or demonstrated ability to learn it quickly.
  • Experience building production LLM or agentic systems, including tool calling, orchestration, or evaluation.
  • Proven ability to take ambiguous projects from zero to production with minimal oversight.
  • Experience utilizing generative AI responsibly to deliver business-ready outputs and drive workflow improvements.

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