Role at a glance
- Salary
- $186.1K – $218.9K/yr
- Location
- Remote - US Remote - US - Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only)
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
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Role Summary
The Senior Software Engineer will work on Coinbase's Stablecoin team within the Developer group to build and scale Coinbase Custom Stablecoins, a platform for partners to launch branded, USDC-backed stablecoins on Coinbase's infrastructure. The role combines backend engineering and smart contract development across issuance, reserves, minting, burning, and rewards distribution.
What You'll Do
- Own and evolve smart contracts for minting, burning, and safeguarding custom stablecoin supply
- Build and scale backend services for onboarding, issuance, reserve accounting, and rewards distribution
- Partner with product, design, and tech leads to turn the stablecoin roadmap into shipped features
- Drive architectural decisions across backend and smart contract systems
- Write high-quality, well-tested code and improve operational excellence
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View full postingQualifications
Senior software engineering experience with production backend services and smart contracts, including Solidity or similar EVM languages, service-oriented architecture, onchain security, Golang, and Ethereum or similar fundamentals.
Required
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including designing, building, and operating production backend services
- Experience writing, testing, and deploying smart contracts in production
- Comfort owning a service end to end and composing service-oriented architecture at scale
- Working knowledge of security and correctness tradeoffs unique to onchain systems
- Familiarity with Golang and onchain fundamentals
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight
Preferred
- Direct experience building DeFi or stablecoin infrastructure
Original job description
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Original job description
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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 Stablecoin team within the Developer group, you'll help build and scale Coinbase Custom Stablecoins (CCS), the platform that lets partners launch their own branded, USDC-backed stablecoins on Coinbase's infrastructure. This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering and smart contract development - you'll own the services and onchain contracts that power issuance, reserves, minting and burning, and rewards distribution for a fast-growing roster of partners.
What you'll do:
- Own and evolve the smart contracts that mint, burn, and safeguard custom stablecoin supply, shipping changes in a secure and auditable way.
- Build and scale backend services that power onboarding, issuance, reserve accounting, and rewards distribution.
- Partner with product, design, and tech leads to turn the stablecoin roadmap into shipped features every quarter.
- Drive architectural decisions across the backend and smart contract surface, balancing security, scalability, and speed of delivery.
- Write high-quality, well-tested code and raise the bar for operational excellence across the team.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including designing, building, and operating production backend services.
- Experience writing, testing, and deploying smart contracts (Solidity or similar EVM languages) in production, ideally where real economic value was at stake.
- Comfort owning a service end to end and composing service-oriented architecture at scale.
- Working knowledge of security and correctness tradeoffs unique to onchain systems - audits, upgradeability, access control, and key management.
- Familiarity with Golang and onchain fundamentals (Ethereum or similar), with direct experience building DeFi or stablecoin infrastructure preferred.
- 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.
- 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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About the company
Coinbase
Large Enterprise
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, and manage digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has grown to serve millions of users globally, providing a secure and user-friendly experience for both novice and experienced traders. Coinbase aims to create an open financial system for the world, advocating for the adoption of digital currencies while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards in various markets. Through its innovative products and services, Coinbase seeks to empower individuals and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with confidence.
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, and manage digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and has grown to serve millions of users globally, providing a secure and user-friendly experience for both novice and experienced traders. Coinbase aims to create an open financial system for the world, advocating for the adoption of digital currencies while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards in various markets. Through its innovative products and services, Coinbase seeks to empower individuals and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with confidence.