Senior Software Engineer, Simple Trade Experience

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on the Simple Trade Experience team within the Consumer & Business group, powering the buy, sell, and convert journeys on the Simple interface of the Coinbase app and website across multiple trading types and assets.

What you'll do

• Own the design and delivery of highly performant, available, and consistent systems powering trading for millions of users worldwide
• Architect robust, extensible systems that support multiple trading types and assets (Spot, Limit, Recurring, and more) while maintaining reliability at web-scale
• Partner closely with product and design to define and ship a best-in-class trading experience across web and mobile
• Drive production service evolution, scaling and maintaining critical trading infrastructure as traffic and product scope grow
• Strengthen engineering quality across the team through rigorous code reviews, mentorship, and knowledge sharing

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with demonstrated success building and scaling production services handling web-scale traffic
• Proven track record designing, building, and maintaining high-availability distributed systems that evolve over time, ideally in trading or financial systems
• Deep proficiency in backend systems languages (Java, Golang, or similar) with experience in data stores such as MongoDB or Redis
• Demonstrated ability to pair customer-focused product thinking with comprehensive observability and operational excellence
• Experience upgrading or re-architecting significant legacy systems into next-generation platforms
• 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 to $218,900 USD; total compensation may include equity, bonus eligibility, and benefits
• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period