Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a remote-first company focused on increasing economic freedom. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Stablecoin team, you will build and scale Coinbase Custom Stablecoins, managing backend services and smart contracts to support partners in launching their own branded stablecoins.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the smart contracts that mint, burn, and safeguard custom stablecoin supply, shipping changes in a secure and auditable way
- Build and scale backend services that power onboarding, issuance, reserve accounting, and rewards distribution
- Partner with product, design, and tech leads to turn the stablecoin roadmap into shipped features every quarter
- Drive architectural decisions across the backend and smart contract surface, balancing security, scalability, and speed of delivery
- Write high-quality, well-tested code and raise the bar for operational excellence across the team
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including designing, building, and operating production backend services
- Experience writing, testing, and deploying smart contracts (Solidity or similar EVM languages) in production, ideally where real economic value was at stake
- Comfort owning a service end to end and composing service-oriented architecture at scale
- Working knowledge of security and correctness tradeoffs unique to onchain systems - audits, upgradeability, access control, and key management
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
- Familiarity with Golang and onchain fundamentals (Ethereum or similar), with direct experience building DeFi or stablecoin infrastructure preferred
Benefits
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
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