Senior Software Engineer, Stablecoins

Coinbase; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Stablecoin team to help build and operate CCS, the platform enabling partners to launch USDC-backed stablecoins on Coinbase infrastructure. You’ll own onchain contracts and backend services powering issuance, reserves, minting, burning, and rewards for a growing roster of partners.

This role combines backend engineering with smart contract development, requiring 5+ years of production backend experience, Solidity or similar, security focus,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering across backend services.
• Experience writing, testing, and deploying smart contracts (Solidity or similar) in production.
• Ability to own a service end to end and design SOA at scale.
• Strong knowledge of security and correctness tradeoffs in onchain systems (audits, upgradeability, access control).
• Familiarity with Ethereum or similar, and DeFi or stablecoin infrastructure.
• Ability to responsibly apply generative AI to improve workflow efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve smart contracts that mint, burn, and safeguard custom stablecoins.
• Build and scale backend services powering onboarding, issuance, reserves, and rewards distribution.
• Collaborate with product, design, and tech leads to ship quarterly features.
• Drive architectural decisions across backend and smart contract surfaces for security and scalability.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code and raise the bar for operational excellence.

Skills

Backend design

Smart contracts

Solidity

Golang

Security audits

On-chain

AI workflows

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? AtCoinbase, 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.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Stablecoin team within the Developer group, you'll help build and scale Coinbase Custom Stablecoins (CCS), the platform that lets partners launch their own branded, USDC-backed stablecoins on Coinbase's infrastructure. This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering and smart contract development - you'll own the services and onchain contracts that power issuance, reserves, minting and burning, and rewards distribution for a fast-growing roster of partners.

What you'll do:

• 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.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 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.

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 USD - $218,900 USD

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