Senior Software Engineer, Retail DEX

US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, especially with data systems.
  • Hands-on experience with data infrastructure like Kafka and Clickhouse.
  • Proficiency in designing and integrating onchain smart contracts on EVM or Solana.
  • Ability to enhance agentic-first code repositories in live settings.
  • Experience utilizing generative AI for improving workflow.

Responsibilities

  • Integrate new blockchains and DEXs into the Coinbase app to expand asset offerings.
  • Design first-party smart contracts for enhanced onchain trading execution.
  • Scale data pipelines for high-volume blockchain data processing.
  • Optimize the trading stack for swift execution and comprehensive asset coverage.
  • Advance agentic-first development methodologies to boost team productivity.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Equity and bonus eligibility for total compensation.
  • Flexible working environment.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
Full Job Description
Senior Software Engineer, Retail DEX

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Retail DEX team within the Consumer & Business group. This team runs all the data and trading systems that power onchain ("DEX") trading within the main Coinbase app, enabling millions of traders to buy and sell 70M+ tokens on major blockchains including Base and Solana. You'll build software systems that straddle the off-chain and onchain worlds to deliver a seamless, unified trading experience regardless of where an asset settles.

What you'll do:
  • Integrate new blockchains, decentralized exchanges, and launchpads into the main Coinbase app to unlock more onchain assets for millions of traders
  • Design and implement first-party smart contracts for onchain trading primitives such as DEX aggregation and advanced order types to improve execution quality and capability
  • Scale real-time data pipelines to handle 100K+ messages per second, enabling millisecond-latency processing of blockchain market data
  • Optimize the trading stack end-to-end to deliver the fastest execution, most optimal fills, and most comprehensive asset coverage for DEX traders
  • Drive iteration on agentic-first development patterns, building self-improving software systems and tooling that accelerate team velocity

Required Skills and Experience:
  • 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering with demonstrated success building and operating data systems or data pipelines in production
  • Hands-on experience designing data-intensive systems and integrating with large-scale data infrastructure such as Kafka, Clickhouse, Starrocks, Temporal, and Redis
  • Proven experience designing and integrating with onchain smart contracts on EVM (Ethereum, Base) or Solana, with deep understanding of the programming models of one or more of these virtual machines
  • Demonstrated ability to build, iterate on, and improve agentic-first code repositories and software systems in production environments
  • 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: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation mayalso include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$191,100-$191,100 CAD

  • Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.

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