Senior Software Engineer, Backend (developer - Foundations)

Coinbase Developer Platform

Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) is building the developer tools to bring the world onchain. Today, onchain development is slow, risky, and painful, even for the most experienced onchain developers. Our goal is to bring a million developers onchain by creating an easy to use and trusted developer experience. We build API and SDK products for developers like wallets, paymaster, staking, stablecoins, onchain data, and more. We are a small team that moves like a startup at Coinbase, with a fast pace, strong ownership culture, and a relentless commitment to making developers happy. In this role you'd be leading engineering efforts for an experimental agentic payments protocol to unlock the next order of magnitude of economic value on the internet. A strong understanding of blockchain transactions, APIs, and a critical mind of developer experience will be critical. You would lend a hand in developing open standards, own backend APIs, and client SDKs.

Job Duties

Developing open protocols for internet agentic payments

Collaborating with internal teams to integrate with broader CDP offerings

Developing server and client libraries that provide world class developer experience

Job Requirements

Experience constructing blockchain transactions using frameworks such as Viem, Web3py, allow, go-ethereum, or equivalent

Experience shipping and scaling TypeScript and Go services in production

3 years of industry experience as a software developer

Nice to haves:

• Understanding of EVM or SVM blockchains
• Experience building open source libraries
• Familiarity with AI agents and LLMs
• Experience building 0 to 1

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Full time offers from Coinbase also include target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)). Pay Range: $180,065—$218,900 USD

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