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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $186,065.0 - $218,900.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Architectural Patterns, Code Review, Distributed Systems, Blockchain, Software Engineering, System Availability, Backend, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Software Coding, Legacy Systems, Microservices
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-blockchain-platform-wallets-liquidity-bridging-coinbase-10185398

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with proficiency in Go and hands-on experience designing and operating service-oriented distributed systems.
 * Demonstrated experience building, scaling, and maintaining production backend services with strict correctness and reliability requirements.
 * Familiarity with blockchain technologies such as transaction construction, on-chain data indexing, or cross-chain integrations across protocols like Ethereum, Bitcoin, or Solana.
 * Experience decomposing monolithic systems into scalable microservices or contributing to platform architecture that multiple teams depend on.
 * Proven ability to collaborate across teams, communicate technical trade-offs clearly, and drive projects from design through production with autonomy.
 * Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

## Description

* Own the design and delivery of backend services (Go) that power wallet operations, liquidity movements, and cross-chain bridging across custodial and non-custodial flows.
 * Build and improve the distributed systems that manage transaction lifecycle, signing, broadcasting, and on-chain reconciliation across multiple blockchain protocols including Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana.
 * Drive reliability and observability improvements for wallet services, contributing to incident response, post-mortems, and systemic fixes that strengthen Tier-0 system availability.
 * Partner with Trading, Custody, Staking, and cross-platform teams to integrate wallet services with downstream products, defining clear contracts and resolving cross-team dependencies.
 * Execute service decomposition and architecture improvements that break down legacy systems into modular, reusable platform services other teams can build on.
 * Support engineering quality across the team through rigorous code reviews, design feedback, and sharing knowledge on architectural patterns and coding standards.


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