Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Payments Platform
Coinbase
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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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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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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.
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