Coinbase

Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Consumer - Agentic Trading)

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Remote, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own backend services powering Coinbase Advisor and Strategies through technical design, launch, and ongoing operation.
  • Build integrations with Coinbase trading APIs for correct and auditable execution of agent recommendations and user-configured strategies.
  • Develop agentic infrastructure including tool calling, orchestration, persistent state, and recovery from failed or partially completed actions.
  • Shape agent behavior through prompt engineering, evaluations, and conversation analysis with the registered investment adviser.
  • Improve service reliability, latency, observability, retry behavior, and safeguards against duplicate actions.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to ship customer-facing capabilities within regulatory guardrails.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep backend expertise and a 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 involving tool calling, orchestration, or evaluation.
  • Ability to take ambiguous projects from zero to production with minimal oversight and sound product and technical judgment.
  • Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

  • Remote-first, but not remote-only, with quarterly in-person working sessions called surges.
  • Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.
  • Annual base salary range is $217,900–$217,900 CAD.

Tech Stack

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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