Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Retail DEX)

Coinbase, Inc.; Little Rock (AR); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Retail DEX backend to power on‑chain trading within the Coinbase app.

You will design and scale data‑intensive systems that bridge off‑chain and on‑chain assets, enabling millions of traders to access a broad set of tokens. Join a remote‑first team that gathers quarterly for in‑person surges; you’ll integrate new blockchains and launches, design on‑chain contracts, and optimize real‑time data pipelines to deliver

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend data systems experience in production.
• Hands-on design of data-intensive systems and data pipelines.
• Experience with onchain smart contracts on EVM or Solana.
• Proven ability to iterate on code repositories in production.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Integrate new blockchains and DEXs into the Coinbase app.
• Design and deploy onchain contracts for trading primitives.
• Scale real-time data pipelines to handle 100K+ messages per second.
• Optimize the trading stack end-to-end for fast execution.
• Foster agentic-first development patterns and tooling.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data pipelines

Kafka

ClickHouse

Onchain contracts

Redis

Tools

Kafka

ClickHouse

StarRocks

Temporal

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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