Senior Backend Engineer - Agentic Trading AI

Coinbase, Inc.; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Coinbase Advisor team within the Consumer & Business group. This role focuses on backend services powering advisor features, integrates with trading APIs, and builds an agentic system with strong emphasis on reliability, safety, and regulatory compliance.

The candidate will own services from design to launch, working with cross-functional teams to deliver fast and trustworthy experiences for millions of users.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with API design, distributed systems, data modeling, testing, and debugging production failures.
• Proficiency in Go or demonstrated ability to learn it quickly.
• Experience building production LLM or agentic systems, including tool calling, orchestration, or evaluation.
• Proven ability to take ambiguous projects from zero to production with minimal oversight and sound product and technical judgment.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services powering Coinbase Advisor and Strategies, from technical design through launch and ongoing operation.
• Build integrations with Coinbase's trading APIs so agent recommendations and user-configured strategies translate into correct, auditable execution.
• Develop our agentic harness, including tool calling, orchestration, persistent state, and recovery from failed or partially completed actions.
• Shape agent behavior through prompt engineering, evals, and conversation analysis, partnering with our registered investment adviser on changes to financial advice.
• Improve service reliability, latency, observability, and execution safety, including retry behavior and safeguards against duplicate actions.
• Partner with frontend engineering, product, design, trading infrastructure, and legal/compliance to ship customer-facing capabilities within regulatory guardrails.

Skills

Backend expertise

API design

Go language

LLM/agentic systems

Production services

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Go

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Coinbase Advisor team within the Consumer & Business group. This role focuses on backend services powering advisor features, integrates with trading APIs, and builds an agentic system with strong emphasis on reliability, safety, and regulatory compliance.

The candidate will own services from design to launch, working with cross-functional teams to deliver fast and trustworthy experiences for millions of users.