Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Retail DEX)

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Retail DEX team at Coinbase, you build the data and trading systems that power onchain trading within the main Coinbase app. You enable millions of traders to buy and sell 70M+ tokens on major blockchains including Base and Solana, creating software systems that bridge the off-chain and onchain worlds to deliver seamless, unified trading experiences.

What you'll do

• 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

What you bring

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience 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
• Ability to utilise generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

What we offer

• Target annual base salary of $191,100 CAD, plus equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Remote-first work with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges"

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a mission to increase economic freedom. The company operates a platform enabling millions of traders to access onchain assets across major blockchains.