Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Retail DEX)

Overview

Senior Software Engineer, Backend on the Retail DEX team within the Consumer & Business group, building the data and trading systems that power onchain (DEX) trading in the main Coinbase app.

What you'll do

• Integrate new blockchains, decentralized exchanges, and launchpads into the main Coinbase app to unlock more onchain assets for millions of traders
• Design and implement first-party smart contracts for onchain trading primitives such as DEX aggregation and advanced order types to improve execution quality and capability
• Scale real-time data pipelines to handle 100K+ messages per second, enabling millisecond-latency processing of blockchain market data
• Optimize the trading stack end-to-end to deliver the fastest execution, most optimal fills, and most comprehensive asset coverage for DEX traders
• Drive iteration on agentic-first development patterns, building self-improving software systems and tooling that accelerate team velocity

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering
• Demonstrated success building and operating data systems or data pipelines in production
• Hands-on experience designing data-intensive systems and integrating with large-scale data infrastructure such as Kafka, Clickhouse, Starrocks, Temporal, and Redis
• Proven experience designing and integrating with onchain smart contracts on EVM (Ethereum, Base) or Solana, with deep understanding of the programming models of one or more of these virtual machines
• Demonstrated ability to build, iterate on, and improve agentic-first code repositories and software systems in production environments
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Details

• Remote-first, but not remote-only; expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called "surges"
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $186,065 – $218,900 USD
• Total compensation may include equity, bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))
• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period