Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer, Simple Trade Experience

United States full-time Senior $186,065 - $218,900
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About the role

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

Senior Software Engineer, Simple Trade Experience
We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Simple Trade Experience team within the Consumer & Business group. This team powers the critical buy, sell, and convert journeys on the Simple interface of the Coinbase app and website, supporting multiple trading types and assets for millions of users worldwide. You'll own highly performant, available, and consistent backend and frontend systems that directly 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

Required Skills and Experience:

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 (Java, Golang, or similar) 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

Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice:Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$186,065—$218,900 USD

Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com. Need screen reading technology? Click here to download a free compatible screen reader and view thetutorial.

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