Software Engineer, CDP - Stablecoin

Coinbase; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 146,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase Canada is seeking a Software Engineer for the Stablecoin team to build and operate custom, USDC-backed stablecoins on Coinbase infrastructure. You will work on backend services, onchain contracts, and issuance/ reserves components for a growing roster of partners.

Collaborate across engineering, design, and product to ship features quarterly, ensure reliability, and apply responsible AI practices to daily workflows in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend services.
• Exposure to writing, testing, or deploying smart contracts (Solidity or similar EVM languages).
• Comfort working within a service-oriented architecture and contributing to established systems at scale.
• Familiarity with Golang and blockchain fundamentals (Ethereum or similar EVM chains).
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend smart contract functionality for minting, burning, and safeguarding custom stablecoin supply.
• Implement backend services that power onboarding, issuance, reserve accounting, and rewards distribution.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to ship quarterly features from the stablecoin roadmap.
• Develop reporting, monitoring, and internal tooling to improve reliability and operational excellence.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code across backend and smart contract surfaces.

Skills

Backend development

Smart contracts

Golang

Blockchain fundamentals

AI workflow optimization

Tools

Ethereum/EVM tooling

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? AtCoinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”learn more about working at Coinbase.

The Stablecoin team builds and operates Coinbase Custom Stablecoins (CCS), the platform that lets partners launch their own branded, USDC-backed stablecoins on Coinbase's infrastructure. As a Software Engineer on this team within the Developer group, you'll build and extend the backend services and onchain contracts that power issuance, reserves, minting and burning, and rewards distribution for a fast-growing roster of partners.

What you'll do:

• Build and extend smart contract functionality for minting, burning, and safeguarding custom stablecoin supply, working closely with senior engineers on design and security review.
• Implement backend services that power onboarding, issuance, reserve accounting, and rewards distribution.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn the stablecoin roadmap into shipped features every quarter.
• Develop reporting, monitoring, and internal tooling that improve reliability and operational excellence for the team.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code across both backend and smart contract surfaces.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 2+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend services.
• Exposure to writing, testing, or deploying smart contracts (Solidity or similar EVM languages), or demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in new technical domains with mentorship.
• Comfort working within a service-oriented architecture and contributing to established systems at scale.
• Familiarity with Golang and blockchain fundamentals (Ethereum or similar EVM chains).
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.

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Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):: $146,300 CAD - $154,000 CAD

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