Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Fullstack (Coinbase Advisor - Agentic Trading)
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Remote - USA
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Who may apply?
United States
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The listing
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.
What you'll do:
- 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)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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