Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Prediction Markets)

Coinbase

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. Coinbase is building prediction markets as part of the Everything Exchange, letting millions of users trade on the outcomes of real-world events across sports, politics, crypto, and culture. We're building the full regulated stack in-house: our own exchange, clearing, and settlement infrastructure. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Prediction Markets team, you'll design and own the core backend systems that power market discovery, best-in-class trading experiences, order management, market resolution, and settlement. It's a rare chance to build market infrastructure from the ground up, with the ownership of a startup and the reach of Coinbase. What you’ll do: * Own the design, development, and reliability of backend systems that power order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution for prediction markets * Architect distributed systems that enforce strict correctness guarantees across clearing, payout, and position management workflows * Drive the technical strategy for migrating from third-party venue participation to a fully Coinbase-operated exchange and clearing platform * Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Compliance, and Risk teams to ensure the platform meets regulatory requirements and launches with confidence * Shape engineering standards and practices across the Prediction Markets team, setting a high bar for code quality, system design, and operational rigor * Partner with engineers across Consumer & Business to identify shared infrastructure opportunities and reduce duplication across trading surfaces Required skills and experience: * 8+ years of backend software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of high-availability, low-latency distributed systems in production * Proven track record designing systems where financial correctness is non-negotiable, such as order management, settlement, clearing, or ledger systems * Experience leading complex, multi-quarter technical projects as the senior technical decision-maker, including architecture design, trade-off analysis, and cross-team coordination * Deep proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Go, Java, or similar) and strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, and data modeling * Track record of mentoring and elevating engineers across a team, raising standards for design reviews, code quality, and incident response * Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality. Position ID:  P77078 #LI-Remote 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): $218,025—$256,500 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. * US Applicants: View Employee Rights, Know Your Rights, and E-Verify Notice of Participation. * 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 the tutorial. * Data Privacy & Arbitration: By submitting your application, you agree to our Candidate Privacy Notice. US applicants: By submitting your application, you agree to Arbitration of Disputes.

Coinbase

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, Full Stack (Coinbase Advisor - Agentic Trading)   We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack to join the Coinbase Advisor team within the Consumer & Business group. This team is building AI-powered agentic trading experiences that help users discover opportunities, execute strategies, and manage portfolios through intelligent, conversational interfaces. You'll own the full-stack systems that bring these experiences to life across web and mobile, turning complex AI and trading concepts into fast, intuitive interactions used by millions of customers. What you'll do: * Own end-to-end full-stack development for Coinbase Advisor's agentic trading surfaces, delivering production-ready UI across web and React Native mobile as well as the Go backend services that power real-time AI and trading features * Build real-time, interactive interfaces for AI-driven trade recommendations, portfolio insights, and autonomous execution flows, ensuring sub-second responsiveness and visual clarity * Partner with AI/ML, backend, design, and product teams to define and ship new agentic trading features from concept through launch * Drive architecture decisions for the Advisor product area, establishing patterns for streaming AI responses, real-time market data rendering, and stateful conversational UX * Lead code quality standards through rigorous code reviews, testing strategies, and performance optimization across the Advisor full-stack Required Skills and Experience: * 5+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience shipping consumer-facing web and/or mobile products at scale, with deep proficiency in React/TypeScript or backend systems (Go preferred) * Demonstrated ability to own architecture for a product area, including state management, API integration patterns, and performance optimization that measurably improved latency or reliability * Experience integrating AI or ML-powered features into user-facing products, including streaming responses, agentic workflows, or conversational interfaces * Proven track record independently driving projects from zero to production, owning both product and technical decisions, and delivering outcomes with minimal oversight * Familiarity with crypto, financial products, or trading 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. * US Applicants: View Employee Rights, Know Your Rights, and E-Verify Notice of Participation. * 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 the tutorial. * Data Privacy & Arbitration: By submitting your application, you agree to our Candidate Privacy Notice. US applicants: By submitting your application, you agree to Arbitration of Disputes.

Coinbase

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. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Infra Systems team within the Platform group, you'll work across the cloud and networking foundations that Coinbase engineers rely on to run reliably at scale. The team owns the front door for GCP paved roads, cloud networking, and AWS-centered infrastructure patterns, with a focus on standardization, self-service, and strong default guardrails. You'll work closely with the AWS, GCP, and Networking owners inside Core Infra Systems and partner with Compute, Infra Security, Routing, and broader infrastructure stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and opinionated infrastructure that keeps Coinbase fast and resilient. What you'll do: * Own cross-cutting infrastructure initiatives that span the AWS, GCP, and Networking pillars inside Core Infra Systems, driving alignment on standards, tooling, and operational patterns. * Build and maintain self-service tooling and paved-road defaults that let product teams provision and operate cloud infrastructure safely without deep platform expertise. * Partner with Compute, Infra Security, and Routing teams to embed guardrails into infrastructure provisioning, ensuring every default meets Coinbase's bar for security, compliance, and reliability. * Drive infrastructure standardization across Coinbase's multi-cloud environment, reducing fragmentation and improving consistency in how teams consume cloud networking, compute, and shared platform primitives. * Lead technical investigations and operational improvements across infrastructure boundaries, working with broader stakeholders to resolve systemic issues and scale foundational systems. Required Skills and Experience: * 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP (networking, compute, or platform engineering). * Hands-on experience with cloud networking primitives such as VPCs, transit gateways, DNS, load balancers, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi). * Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Go, Python) used to build platform tooling and automation at scale. * Demonstrated ability to drive cross-team technical initiatives, partnering across multiple infrastructure domains to deliver cohesive, production-ready outcomes. * 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. * US Applicants: View Employee Rights, Know Your Rights, and E-Verify Notice of Participation. * 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 the tutorial. * Data Privacy & Arbitration: By submitting your application, you agree to our Candidate Privacy Notice. US applicants: By submitting your application, you agree to Arbitration of Disputes.