Join Coinbase as a Senior Software Engineer to lead complex token initiatives in a hybrid remote environment.
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Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will manage the complete lifecycle of token and wrapped asset projects, from smart contract deployment to API design and production rollout across various blockchain platforms. Proficiency in Go and hands-on blockchain experience are essential, along with a solid understanding of distributed systems and on-call responsibilities. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a track record of leading complex projects in dynamic environments, particularly those who thrive in a high-pressure, innovative setting like Coinbase.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 24 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Coinbase's career page.
- Coinbase has 181 other open roles including Senior Data Scientist, Strategic Finance Manager, Platform, Product Manager II, Workspace and Multi-User.
- 858 active Go roles on Joblaze right now.
- 8 active Ethereum roles on Joblaze right now.
- 5 active Solidity roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$165,000).
- Pays more than 68% of the 466 salaried Go roles we track (median $159,800). See Go salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Tokens & Wrapped Assets) role remote?
- It's hybrid — Coinbase expects some on-site time in Remote - USA.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $186,065–$218,900 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Tokens & Wrapped Assets) role.
- Where is the role based?
- Coinbase is hiring for this position in Remote - USA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Base, Ethereum, Go, Solana, Solidity.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Tokens & Wrapped Assets) role at Coinbase.
From the original posting
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.
What you'll do:
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex token and wrapped asset initiatives, from smart contract deployment through API design, SLOs, and production rollout across multiple chains.
- Build and operate the Go services and smart contracts that mint, burn, bridge, and reconcile wrapped assets, ensuring correctness across on-chain and off-chain systems.
- Drive improvements to the asset transformation and migration pipeline, making it dramatically faster and safer to launch, upgrade, and migrate tokens at scale.
- Partner across Trading, Custody, USDC, Compliance, and the broader crypto stack to ship customer- and revenue-impacting work that advances onchain innovation.
- Lead on-call ownership for team services, building observability, runbooks, and operational improvements that keep Tier-0 systems reliable.
- Strengthen team engineering quality by onboarding and coaching junior engineers, contributing to design reviews, and establishing patterns that raise the technical bar.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one backend language (Go preferred), including designing, building, and operating production backend services at scale.
- Hands-on blockchain experience, either from smart contract development (Solidity/EVM), onchain integrations, or building services that transact onchain.
- Demonstrated experience with distributed systems patterns including APIs, event-driven architectures, data reconciliation, and on-call ownership.
- Track record of owning complex projects with autonomy in fast-moving, multi-chain or multi-system environments.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Job #: P77417
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