Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform (Tokens & Wrapped Assets)
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We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Tokens & Wrapped Assets team within the Platform organization. This team builds and operates the platform that issues, wraps, and transforms every asset at Coinbase, including flagship wrapped assets like cbBTC, spanning Ethereum, Base, and Solana. You’ll own complex projects end-to-end, from smart contract through APIs and production rollout, designing and operating the Go services that mint, burn, bridge, and reconcile wrapped assets across chains.
What you’ll do:
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex token and wrapped asset initiatives, from smart contract deployment through API design, SLOs, and production rollout across multiple chains.
- Build and operate the Go services and smart contracts that mint, burn, bridge, and reconcile wrapped assets, ensuring correctness across on-chain and off-chain systems.
- Drive improvements to the asset transformation and migration pipeline, making it dramatically faster and safer to launch, upgrade, and migrate tokens at scale.
- Partner across Trading, Custody, USDC, Compliance, and the broader crypto stack to ship customer- and revenue-impacting work that advances onchain innovation.
- Lead on-call ownership for team services, building observability, runbooks, and operational improvements that keep Tier-0 systems reliable.
- Strengthen team engineering quality by onboarding and coaching junior engineers, contributing to design reviews, and establishing patterns that raise the technical bar.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one backend language (Go preferred), including designing, building, and operating production backend services at scale.
- Hands-on blockchain experience, either from smart contract development (Solidity/EVM), onchain integrations, or building services that transact onchain.
- Demonstrated experience with distributed systems patterns including APIs, event-driven architectures, data reconciliation, and on-call ownership.
- Track record of owning complex projects with autonomy in fast-moving, multi-chain or multi-system environments.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
About the company
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? AtCoinbase, 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.
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