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CoinbaseSenior Software Engineer, Backend/Fullstack (Coinbase Advisor - Agentic Trading)
Coinbase is remote-first, though not remote-only, and gathers teams in person each quarter for intensive working sessions it calls surges. This senior role is part of…
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Coinbase is remote-first, though not remote-only, and gathers teams in person each quarter for intensive working sessions it calls surges. This senior role is part of the Coinbase Advisor team in the Consumer and Business group. The posting describes it as mainly a backend job on a full-stack team. Coinbase Advisor is presented as the first RIA-licensed agentic trading product: an AI adviser inside the Coinbase app that talks through…
Job Description
Coinbase is remote-first, though not remote-only, and gathers teams in person each quarter for intensive working sessions it calls surges. This senior role is part of the Coinbase Advisor team in the Consumer and Business group. The posting describes it as mainly a backend job on a full-stack team. Coinbase Advisor is presented as the first RIA-licensed agentic trading product: an AI adviser inside the Coinbase app that talks through a customer's portfolio, offers tailored financial guidance, and places trades for the customer. The engineer will own the services that keep that experience quick, transparent, and dependable.
Work includes owning backend services for Advisor and Strategies from design through launch and long-term operation. The engineer builds connections to Coinbase's trading interfaces so that agent suggestions and customer-defined strategies become accurate, traceable orders. The role also covers the agent harness: tool invocation, orchestration, durable state, and recovery when actions fail or finish only partway. Behavior tuning is part of the job too, through prompt design, evaluations, and conversation review, coordinated with the company's registered investment adviser for any changes to financial advice.
The engineer also improves uptime, response times, monitoring quality, and the safety of trade execution, including retry logic and protections against duplicate trades. They coordinate with the frontend group, product and design staff, trading infrastructure teams, and legal and compliance colleagues to ship customer features within regulatory bounds.
Responsibilities
- Own backend services for Coinbase Advisor and Strategies from design through launch and upkeep
- Build integrations with Coinbase trading APIs so recommendations and strategies execute accurately and leave an audit trail
- Develop the agent harness, including tool calling, orchestration, state persistence, and recovery
- Influence agent behavior via prompt design, evaluations, and conversation analysis
- Strengthen uptime, response speed, monitoring, and trade-execution safety, adding retries and guards against duplicate actions
- Partner with frontend engineers, product managers, designers, trading infra staff, and legal/compliance colleagues
Requirements
- Five or more years building software professionally, with deep backend skills and services you have run in production
- Strong grounding in designing APIs, distributed architectures, modeling data, writing tests, and troubleshooting live incidents
- Go skills, or the proven ability to pick the language up quickly
- Practical record building LLM-based or agent-style systems that run in production, involving tool calls, orchestration, or evaluation
- A track record of taking unclear projects to production with little oversight
- Responsible use of generative AI, with humans overseeing business-ready outputs
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Benefits
- Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) coverage
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is this role remote?
Remote-first is how the company describes itself, though it is not remote-only, and it holds quarterly in-person sessions called surges.
What is the base salary range?
The annual base salary range is $186,065 to $218,900 USD, excluding equity and bonus.
What technical skills are required?
Go skills are required, or the capacity to pick the language up fast, along with production experience with LLM or agentic systems.
Is there an application limit?
A cap applies: no more than three applications can be filed within any six-month window.
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