Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Retail DEX)
About the role
Senior Software Engineer to join the Retail DEX team powering onchain trading within the main Coinbase app. Build systems that bridge off-chain and onchain worlds, integrate new blockchains and DEXs, and optimize real-time data pipelines for high-volume, low-latency trading.
Responsibilities
- 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
Qualifications
- 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.
Skills
Benefits
- Extended Health Care Benefit - (coordinates with Provincial Coverage)
- Dental Care
- Vision Care
- Consult+ (Virtual Health Care)
- Life & Accident Insurance
- Disability Coverage
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Wellness Stipend
- Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
- Learning and Development Allowance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Travel Medical Policy - Global Traveler
- Fertility Benefits
- Generous Time off/Leave Policy

About Coinbase
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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