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Build and operate backend infrastructure and APIs for stablecoin-based payments, deposits, withdrawals, and transfers. Own projects from system design through production, improve distributed-system performance and reliability, collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance, and contribute to engineering quality through reviews and architectural best practices. The role requires blockchain integration experience and responsible use of generative AI.
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Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Fintech • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency • NFT • Web3
Lead the technical vision and architecture of Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure, including ledger, account balances, money movement, settlements, transfers, and transaction history. Drive distributed-system rearchitecture with double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, and resilient failure recovery. Lead cross-team initiatives, migrations, and technical strategy while partnering with product, finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders. Mentor senior engineers and promote operational excellence and maintainability.
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Build and extend smart contracts and backend services for issuance, minting, burning, reserve accounting, and rewards for custom USDC-backed stablecoins. Implement onboarding, reporting, monitoring, and internal tooling, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and write well-tested production code across backend and on-chain surfaces.
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The Stablecoin team builds and operates Coinbase Custom Stablecoins (CCS), the platform that lets partners launch their own branded, USDC-backed stablecoins on Coinbase's infrastructure. As a Software Engineer on this team within the Developer group, you'll build and extend the backend services and onchain contracts that power issuance, reserves, minting and burning, and rewards distribution for a fast-growing roster of partners.
What you'll do:
- Build and extend smart contract functionality for minting, burning, and safeguarding custom stablecoin supply, working closely with senior engineers on design and security review.
- Implement backend services that power onboarding, issuance, reserve accounting, and rewards distribution.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn the stablecoin roadmap into shipped features every quarter.
- Develop reporting, monitoring, and internal tooling that improve reliability and operational excellence for the team.
- Write high-quality, well-tested code across both backend and smart contract surfaces.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 2+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend services.
- Exposure to writing, testing, or deploying smart contracts (Solidity or similar EVM languages), or demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in new technical domains with mentorship.
- Comfort working within a service-oriented architecture and contributing to established systems at scale.
- Familiarity with Golang and blockchain fundamentals (Ethereum or similar EVM chains).
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
- Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human‑in‑the‑loop practices to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.
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Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
$146,300—$154,000 CAD
- 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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