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# Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Retail DEX)

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Sacramento, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $186,065.0 - $218,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Algorithmic Trading, Big Data, Data Systems, Redis, Blockchain, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Systems Integration, Virtual Machines, Software Repository, Backend, Ethereum, Apache Kafka, Vertica, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3451614206&tx=VT656TYI&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Retail DEX team within thehttps://www.coinbase.com/careers/product-groups) 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