Join Coinbase as a Senior Software Engineer to enhance the trading experience for millions of users worldwide.
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Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Software Engineer on the Simple Trade Experience team at Coinbase, the individual will be responsible for designing and delivering high-performance systems that facilitate trading for millions of users. Key skills include expertise in backend languages like Java or Golang and experience with distributed systems, particularly in financial contexts. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in building scalable services and a focus on customer-centric product development. Coinbase emphasizes a collaborative environment, with opportunities for in-person teamwork during quarterly sessions.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 4 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.
- 838 active Java roles on Joblaze right now.
- 179 active Golang roles on Joblaze right now.
- 140 active MongoDB roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$165,000).
- Pays more than 76% of the 442 salaried Java roles we track (median $153,200). See Java salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, Simple Trade Experience 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, Simple Trade Experience 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: Golang, Java, MongoDB, Redis.
- 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, Simple Trade Experience 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.
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)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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