Senior Software Engineer, Retail DEX

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Retail DEX team at Coinbase, you'll build software systems that connect off-chain and onchain worlds. You'll enable millions of traders to buy and sell 70M+ tokens on major blockchains including Base and Solana through the main Coinbase app, delivering a seamless unified trading experience.

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
• The ability to use 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 "surge" sessions

About Coinbase

Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom, building the future of finance with a high bar and intense environment. The company is remote-first, bringing teams together quarterly for in-person working sessions.