Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Retail DEX)

Coinbase, Inc.; Juneau (AK); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Retail DEX backend. You will join the Retail DEX team building data and trading systems powering onchain trading within the Coinbase app, supporting millions of traders across Base and Solana.

You will design and integrate new blockchains and launchpads, implement onchain trading primitives, and scale real-time data pipelines to millisecond latency, delivering fast execution and broad asset coverage.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering with data systems in production.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale data infra like Kafka, ClickHouse, StarRocks, Temporal, Redis.
• Proven experience designing onchain smart contracts on Ethereum-based systems or Solana.
• Ability to iterate on agentic-first code repositories and AI-assisted workflows.

Responsibilities

• Integrate new blockchains, DEXs, and launchpads into the main Coinbase app.
• Design and implement first-party onchain trading primitives and smart contracts.
• Scale real-time data pipelines to handle 100K+ messages per second.
• Optimize the trading stack end-to-end for fastest execution and broad asset coverage.
• Drive iteration on agentic-first development patterns and tooling to boost velocity.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data pipelines

Kafka

ClickHouse

StarRocks

Temporal

Redis

On-chain contracts

Agentic-first code

Generative AI awareness

Tools

EVM (Ethereum/Base)

Solana

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, 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

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Retail DEX)

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Retail DEX team within the Consumer & Business group. This team runs all the data and trading systems that power onchain ("DEX") trading within the main Coinbase app, enabling millions of traders to buy and sell 70M+ tokens on major blockchains including Base and Solana. You'll build software systems that straddle the off-chain and onchain worlds to deliver a seamless, unified trading experience regardless of where an asset settles.

What you'll do:

• 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 such as DEX aggregation and advanced order types 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

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering with demonstrated success building and operating data systems or data pipelines in production

• Hands-on experience designing data-intensive systems and integrating 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.

*Pay Transparency Notice:** *Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$186,065—$218,900 USD

• *Application Limit: *Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.

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