# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Coinbase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/coinbase)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $186k – $219k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, solidity, evm, Blockchain, Distributed Systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, data reconciliation, on-call ownership, smart contracts
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> Senior backend engineer building and operating Go services and smart contracts for minting, burning, bridging, and reconciling wrapped assets like cbBTC across Ethereum, Base, and Solana. Owns complex multi-chain initiatives end-to-end with on-call and mentoring responsibilities.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

- Own end-to-end delivery of complex token and wrapped asset initiatives, from smart contract deployment through API design, SLOs, and production rollout across multiple chains.
- Build and operate the Go services and smart contracts that mint, burn, bridge, and reconcile wrapped assets, ensuring correctness across on-chain and off-chain systems.
- Drive improvements to the asset transformation and migration pipeline, making it dramatically faster and safer to launch, upgrade, and migrate tokens at scale.
- Partner across Trading, Custody, USDC, Compliance, and the broader crypto stack to ship customer- and revenue-impacting work that advances onchain innovation.
- Lead on-call ownership for team services, building observability, runbooks, and operational improvements that keep Tier-0 systems reliable.
- Strengthen team engineering quality by onboarding and coaching junior engineers, contributing to design reviews, and establishing patterns that raise the technical bar.

## Required Skills and Experience

- 5+ years of experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one backend language (Go preferred), including designing, building, and operating production backend services at scale.
- Hands-on blockchain experience, either from smart contract development (Solidity/EVM), onchain integrations, or building services that transact onchain.
- Demonstrated experience with distributed systems patterns including APIs, event-driven architectures, data reconciliation, and on-call ownership.
- Track record of owning complex projects with autonomy in fast-moving, multi-chain or multi-system environments.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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