Senior Software Engineer — Stablecoin & On-Chain

Coinbase; United States; Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Stablecoin team within the Developer group to build and scale CCS, enabling partners to launch USDC-backed stablecoins on Coinbase’s infrastructure.

This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering and on-chain contracts, owning services for issuance, reserves, minting, burning, and rewards distribution for a growing roster of partners.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including designing, building, and operating production backend services.
• Experience writing, testing, and deploying smart contracts (Solidity or similar EVM languages) in production, ideally where real economic value was at stake.
• Comfort owning a service end to end and composing service-oriented architecture at scale.
• Working knowledge of security and correctness tradeoffs unique to onchain systems - audits, upgradeability, access control, and key management.
• Familiarity with Golang and onchain fundamentals (Ethereum or similar), with direct experience building DeFi or stablecoin infrastructure preferred.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the smart contracts that mint, burn, and safeguard custom stablecoin supply, shipping changes in a secure and auditable way.
• Build and scale backend services that power onboarding, issuance, reserve accounting, and rewards distribution.
• Partner with product, design, and tech leads to turn the stablecoin roadmap into shipped features every quarter.
• Drive architectural decisions across the backend and smart contract surface, balancing security, scalability, and speed of delivery.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code and raise the bar for operational excellence across the team.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend services

Smart contracts

Security & audits

Golang

Ethereum / DeFi

AI for productivity

Tools

Solidity

Golang

Ethereum

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Stablecoin team within the Developer group to build and scale CCS, enabling partners to launch USDC-backed stablecoins on Coinbase’s infrastructure.

This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering and on-chain contracts, owning services for issuance, reserves, minting, burning, and rewards distribution for a growing roster of partners.