Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Fullstack (Coinbase Advisor - Agentic Trading)

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Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Fullstack (Coinbase Advisor - Agentic Trading)

Coinbase

Remote - USA

$186.1k – $218.9k/yr

Posted 4 days ago

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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.

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Coinbase Advisor team within the Consumer & Business group. Coinbase Advisor is the world's first RIA-licensed agentic trading system: an AI advisor living inside the Coinbase app that holds a natural conversation about a user's portfolio, gives personalized financial advice, and executes trades on their behalf. This role is primarily backend on a full-stack team. You'll own the services that make agentic trading feel fast, clear, and trustworthy for millions of customers.

Key Responsibilities

Own backend services powering Coinbase Advisor and Strategies, from technical design through launch and ongoing operation

Build integrations with Coinbase's trading APIs so agent recommendations and user-configured strategies translate into correct, auditable execution

Develop our agentic harness, including tool calling, orchestration, persistent state, and recovery from failed or partially completed actions

Shape agent behavior through prompt engineering, evals, and conversation analysis, partnering with our registered investment adviser on changes to financial advice

Improve service reliability, latency, observability, and execution safety, including retry behavior and safeguards against duplicate actions

Partner with frontend engineering, product, design, trading infrastructure, and legal/compliance to ship customer-facing capabilities within regulatory guardrails

Required Skills and Experience

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep backend expertise and a track record of shipping and operating production services

Strong experience with API design, distributed systems, data modeling, testing, and debugging production failures

Proficiency in Go or demonstrated ability to learn it quickly

Experience building production LLM or agentic systems, including tool calling, orchestration, or evaluation

Proven ability to take ambiguous projects from zero to production with minimal oversight and sound product and technical judgment

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.

Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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..

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About Coinbase

Coinbase, founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam in San Francisco, is the largest US-listed crypto exchange (NASDAQ: COIN) with 110M+ verified users and $300B+ quarterly traded volume. Products span retail, Advanced Trade, Wallet self-custody, Base L2 and institutional prime. Public since 2021, Coinbase drives US policy engagement and proof-of-reserves standards. The bar is high for security thinking, regulatory judgment and shipping consumer-grade crypto products. As the premier US-listed digital asset platform, Coinbase sets industry standards for security architecture, regulatory engagement, and developer-first Web3 ecosystem scaling. Coinbase recruits across engineering, risk compliance, product design, and business development to expand compliant Web3 financial services.

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