Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Driven Trading Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Montgomery (AL); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Coinbase Advisor team within the Consumer & Business group. This is primarily a backend role on a full‑stack team, building a scalable agentic trading system inside the Coinbase app.

You will ensure fast, clear, and trustworthy execution for millions of customers. You will shape agent behavior through design, prompt engineering, and evaluations, coordinating with a registered investment adviser on changes to financial advice and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with API design, distributed systems, data modeling, testing, and debugging production failures.
• Proficiency in Go or ability to learn quickly.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services powering Coinbase Advisor and Strategies from design through launch and operation.
• Build integrations with Coinbase trading APIs for correct execution of agent recommendations.
• Develop agentic harness: tool calling, orchestration, state, and recovery from failures.

Skills

Backend engineering

API design

Go

LLM / agentic systems

ambiguous projects

AI governance

Tools

Distributed systems tooling

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Coinbase Advisor team within the Consumer & Business group. This is primarily a backend role on a full‑stack team, building a scalable agentic trading system inside the Coinbase app.

You will ensure fast, clear, and trustworthy execution for millions of customers. You will shape agent behavior through design, prompt engineering, and evaluations, coordinating with a registered investment adviser on changes to financial advice and