Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer, Retail DEX

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3 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Integrate new blockchains, decentralized exchanges, and launchpads into the Coinbase app.
  • Design and implement first-party smart contracts for DEX aggregation and advanced onchain order types.
  • Scale real-time data pipelines to process more than 100,000 messages per second with millisecond-latency blockchain market data processing.
  • Optimize the trading stack for execution speed, fill quality, and asset coverage.
  • Develop agentic-first software patterns, self-improving systems, and productivity tooling.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of backend software engineering experience, including successfully building and operating production data systems or pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience designing data-intensive systems and integrating with Kafka, ClickHouse, StarRocks, Temporal, and Redis.
  • Experience designing and integrating onchain smart contracts on EVM systems such as Ethereum or Base, or on Solana, with deep understanding of one or more relevant virtual-machine programming models.
  • Experience building, iterating on, and improving agentic-first code repositories and software systems in production.
  • Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
  • Potential eligibility for equity and bonuses in addition to base salary.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaClickHouseRedis

Categories

Coinbase

About Coinbase

5,001-10,000 employees

Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.

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