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Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Fullstack (Coinbase Advisor - Agentic Trading)

Coinbase· Consumer & Business
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Remote$186.1k - $218.9kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to join the Coinbase Advisor team within the Consumer & Business group. Focus on backend development for an AI advisor system that talks about users’ portfolios, provides financial advice, and executes trades. Role is primarily backend on a full-stack team, owning services, integrations with trading APIs, and building the agentic harness with tooling, orchestration, and state management.

Responsibilities

  • Own backend services powering Coinbase Advisor and Strategies, from technical design through launch and ongoing operation
  • Build integrations with Coinbase's trading APIs so agent recommendations and user-configured strategies translate into correct, auditable execution
  • Develop our agentic harness, including tool calling, orchestration, persistent state, and recovery from failed or partially completed actions
  • Shape agent behavior through prompt engineering, evals, and conversation analysis, partnering with our registered investment adviser on changes to financial advice
  • Improve service reliability, latency, observability, and execution safety, including retry behavior and safeguards against duplicate actions
  • Partner with frontend engineering, product, design, trading infrastructure, and legal/compliance to ship customer-facing capabilities within regulatory guardrails

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep backend expertise and a track record of shipping and operating production services
  • Strong experience with API design, distributed systems, data modeling, testing, and debugging production failures
  • Proficiency in Go or demonstrated ability to learn it quickly
  • Experience building production LLM or agentic systems, including tool calling, orchestration, or evaluation
  • Proven ability to take ambiguous projects from zero to production with minimal oversight and sound product and technical judgment
  • 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 developmentAPI designGoDistributed systemsLLM / agentic systems
Nice to have:Prompt engineering

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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