Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack (Institutional - Markets)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Job Title: Senior Full-Stack Engineer
• Company: Coinbase
• Team: Institutional Product Group - Onchain Markets

The Institutional Product Group engineers create and maintain a suite of products catering to institutional customers of all sizes from Hedge Funds (Coinbase Prime) to experienced individual traders (Coinbase Advanced Trade) and everything in between. Additional Products include Prime - Custody Only, Prime Web3 Wallet, Commerce and Exchange. Whether the customer needs are trading, staking, governance, custody, web3 operations, or API integrations, Coinbase Institutional has them covered. We’re seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our small entrepreneurial team focused on building innovative 0-to-1 Onchain Markets products. Operating as a startup within Coinbase, we're combining the agility of a small team with the resources and reach of a global platform. In this role, you’ll contribute to building cutting-edge solutions that span trading, financing, and more, helping to redefine market infrastructure for the institutional world in this new global onchain economy.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience shipping production features, including onchain products.
• Frontend Skills: Expert in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
• Solidity Skills: Strong Solidity skills with experience deploying production smart contracts.
• Blockchain Understanding: Deep understanding of blockchain fundamentals and DeFi protocols.
• Backend Skills: Experience with backend development and API design.
• Collaboration: Strong collaboration skills with product, design, and engineering teams.
• Security: Proven ability to build secure, high-performance web applications.

Responsibilities

• Drive 0-to-1 product development for new Onchain Markets offerings.
• Develop and maintain highly interactive, responsive, and user-friendly frontend applications for onchain products.
• Design, develop, and optimize smart contracts using Solidity to enable new onchain products and features.
• Build and integrate backend systems to power the onchain data needs of Onchain Markets products.
• Rapidly prototype new onchain experiences to gain early feedback.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex fullstack issues, ensuring performance, stability, reliability, and security.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building or scaling DeFi protocols.
• Contributions to open-source blockchain projects.
• Background in trading systems or financial exchanges.
• Experience with Golang and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Understanding of institutional trading workflows.
• Track record in high-growth crypto or fintech environments.

Application Instructions

• Job ID: GIFE05US
• Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an equal opportunity employer.
• Crypto-Related Questions: Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate your onchain experience.
• Location Tag: #LI-Remote