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Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer, Simple Trade Experience

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Simple Trade Experience for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $186k-$219k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Coinbase.

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  • On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
  • The listed pay starts 11% above the typical software engineer posting on Level.
  • The posting lists this role as remote.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include Java, Golang and MongoDB.
  • Level lists 226 other open roles at Coinbase.

AI in this role

Design and scale backend and frontend systems for the Simple Trade Experience team at Coinbase.

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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.

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)). 

 

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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  • 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.
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How we rate this

Senior Software Engineer, Simple Trade Experience at Coinbase rates 20 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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$186k
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