Senior Software Engineer, Simple Trade Experience

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Simple Trade Experience team at Coinbase, you own highly performant, available, and consistent backend and frontend systems that power the critical buy, sell, and convert journeys on the Simple interface of the Coinbase app and website. This team serves millions of users worldwide across multiple trading types and assets, and you'll enable customers to trade with confidence at web-scale.

What you'll do

• Own the design and delivery of highly performant, available, and consistent systems powering trading for millions of users worldwide
• Architect robust, extensible systems that support multiple trading types and assets (Spot, Limit, Recurring, and more) while maintaining reliability at web-scale
• Partner closely with product and design to define and ship a best-in-class trading experience across web and mobile
• Drive production service evolution, scaling and maintaining critical trading infrastructure as traffic and product scope grow
• Strengthen engineering quality across the team through rigorous code reviews, mentorship, and knowledge sharing

What you bring

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with demonstrated success building and scaling production services handling web-scale traffic
• Proven track record designing, building, and maintaining high-availability distributed systems that evolve over time, ideally in trading or financial systems
• Deep proficiency in backend systems languages such as Java or Golang with experience in data stores such as MongoDB or Redis
• Demonstrated ability to pair customer-focused product thinking with comprehensive observability and operational excellence
• Experience upgrading or re-architecting significant legacy systems into next-generation platforms
• 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

• Annual base salary of $186,065-$218,900 USD, varying by location
• Equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges"
• Remote-first work arrangement

About Coinbase

Coinbase is a mission-driven company focused on increasing economic freedom, serving millions of users worldwide with trading and financial services on the blockchain.