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Senior Software Engineer, Stablecoins

Coinbase· Developer
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Remote$186.1k - $218.9kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer on the Stablecoin team building and scaling Coinbase Custom Stablecoins (CCS), spanning backend services and on-chain contracts for issuance, reserves, minting/burning, and rewards distribution, in a remote-first Coinbase environment.

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.

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.

Skills

Required:Backend developmentSmart contract developmentSecurity and on-chain governance
Nice to have:Go (Golang)

Benefits

  • Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions
  • Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period
  • Disability and Life Insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Wellness Stipend
  • Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Fertility Counseling and Benefits
  • Generous Time off/Leave Policy
  • The option of getting paid in digital currency
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.

Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.

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