Senior Software Engineer, Stablecoins

Coinbase
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Geared toward candidates with deep blockchain and backend engineering experience comfortable with owning onchain contracts and scaling infrastructure.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5+ years of backend engineering experience and a track record in onchain systems development
    — “5+ years of experience in software engineering, including designing, building, and operating production backend services
  • Individuals who have deployed smart contracts with real economic value and can manage security and correctness tradeoffs
    — “Experience writing, testing, and deploying smart contracts (Solidity or similar EVM languages) in production, ideally where real economic value was at stake
  • Engineers who can balance architectural decisions across backend and onchain systems with a focus on security and scalability
    — “Drive architectural decisions across the backend and smart contract surface, balancing security, scalability, and speed of delivery

Things to consider

  • Quarterly in-person 'surges' may require travel and time flexibility despite the remote-first setup
    — “Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges”
  • Candidates must be US-based due to the compensation range and lack of visa sponsorship mention
    — “Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $186,065—$218,900 USD

How to stand out

  • Emphasize experience in building and operating stablecoin or DeFi infrastructure in your resume and interview responses
    — “Familiarity with Golang and onchain fundamentals (Ethereum or similar), with direct experience building DeFi or stablecoin infrastructure preferred
  • Highlight your ability to ship secure and auditable smart contract changes in production environments
    — “Own and evolve the smart contracts that mint, burn, and safeguard custom stablecoin supply, shipping changes in a secure and auditable way
  • Demonstrate your capacity for end-to-end service ownership and scaling complex systems
    — “Comfort owning a service end to end and composing service-oriented architecture at scale
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • building and scaling Coinbase Custom Stablecoins
  • driving architectural decisions
  • writing high-quality code
Typical background
backend engineeringsmart contract development

Skills & requirements

Required

Smart Contract DevelopmentBackend ServicesBlockchain TechnologySecurityGoEthereum

Preferred

DefiStablecoin Infrastructure

About the role

Original posting from 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 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)). 

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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Source: Coinbase careers

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