Senior Software Engineer, High-Impact Trading (Remote)

Coinbase; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Simple Trade Experience team. You will own highly performant backend and frontend systems enabling buy, sell, and convert journeys for millions of users across Coinbase web and mobile.

Responsibilities include designing robust trading infrastructure, partnering with product/design, and driving evolution of critical services while maintaining reliability at web scale. A strong focus on observability, quality, and mentorship is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in production services handling web-scale traffic.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining high-availability distributed systems, ideally in trading or financial domains.
• Proficiency in backend languages (Java, Golang) and data stores (MongoDB, Redis).
• Ability to pair customer-focused product thinking with strong observability and operations.
• Experience upgrading legacy systems to modern, scalable platforms.
• Knowledge of responsible AI usage to improve workflows, with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own design and delivery of highly performant, available systems powering trading for millions of users.
• Architect robust systems supporting multiple trading types and assets while maintaining web-scale reliability.
• Collaborate with product and design to ship a best-in-class trading experience across web and mobile.
• Drive production service evolution, scaling and maintaining critical trading infrastructure as scope grows.
• Mentor teammates through code reviews and knowledge sharing.

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Simple Trade Experience team. You will own highly performant backend and frontend systems enabling buy, sell, and convert journeys for millions of users across Coinbase web and mobile.

Responsibilities include designing robust trading infrastructure, partnering with product/design, and driving evolution of critical services while maintaining reliability at web scale. A strong focus on observability, quality, and mentorship is expected.