Remote Senior Backend Engineer - On-Chain Trading & DEX

Coinbase, Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for the Retail DEX team to build data and trading systems powering onchain trading across Base and Solana. You will bridge off-chain and onchain components to deliver seamless trading experiences for millions of users within the Coinbase app.

You will scale real-time data pipelines, design onchain primitives, and push performance improvements across the stack while operating in a remote-first, in-person surge-enabled environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience in production data systems.
• Hands-on design of data‑intensive systems and integration 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 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.

Skills

Backend development

Data infrastructure

Distributed systems

AI-enabled tooling

Performance optimization

Tools

Kafka

ClickHouse

StarRocks

Temporal

Redis

Ethereum

Base

Solana

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for the Retail DEX team to build data and trading systems powering onchain trading across Base and Solana. You will bridge off-chain and onchain components to deliver seamless trading experiences for millions of users within the Coinbase app.

You will scale real-time data pipelines, design onchain primitives, and push performance improvements across the stack while operating in a remote-first, in-person surge-enabled environment.