Senior Software Engineer, Retail DEX

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 122,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Retail DEX team.

You will work on data and trading systems powering onchain trading within the Coinbase app, enabling millions of traders to access assets across blockchains like Base and Solana. You’ll design smart contracts, scale real-time data pipelines, and optimize the trading stack end-to-end while collaborating on agentic-first software patterns and AI-assisted workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience in production data systems.
• Experience designing data-intensive systems with Kafka, ClickHouse, StarRocks, Temporal, Redis.
• Proven experience designing/integrating onchain smart contracts (Ethereum/Base, Solana).
• Ability to build and iterate agentic-first codebases in production.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Integrate new blockchains, DEXs, and launchpads into the Coinbase app to unlock more onchain assets.
• Design and implement first-party smart contracts for onchain trading primitives to improve execution quality.
• Scale real-time data pipelines to handle 100K+ messages per second for millisecond-latency data processing.
• Optimize the trading stack end-to-end for fastest execution and comprehensive asset coverage.
• Drive iteration on agentic-first development patterns and tooling to accelerate team velocity.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data pipelines

On-chain contracts

Agentic-first code

AI governance

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, 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: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$191,100—$191,100 CAD

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