Senior Software Engineer, Stablecoins

Coinbase; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Stablecoin team, you will own services and on-chain contracts powering issuance, reserves, minting, burning, and rewards for partners.

You will collaborate with product, design, and tech leads to translate the stablecoin roadmap into shipped features each quarter, balancing security and scalability while shipping quickly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience writing, testing, and deploying smart contracts in production.
• Comfort owning a service end to end and SOA at scale.
• Security and correctness tradeoffs in onchain systems and access control.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve smart contracts for mint, burn, and safeguarding custom stablecoins.
• Build and scale backend services for onboarding, issuance, reserve accounting, and rewards.
• Collaborate with product/design/tech leads to ship quarterly features.
• Drive architecture decisions balancing security, scalability, and delivery speed.
• Write high-quality, well-tested code and raise the bar for operational excellence.

Skills

Backend engineering

Smart contracts

Golang

Solidity

DeFi

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.

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—$218,900 USD

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