Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Fullstack (Coinbase Advisor - Agentic Trading)
Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Fullstack (Coinbase Advisor - Agentic Trading)
We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Coinbase Advisor team within the Consumer & Business group. Coinbase Advisor is the world's first RIA-licensed agentic trading system: an AI advisor living inside the Coinbase app that holds a natural conversation about a user's portfolio, gives personalized financial advice, and executes trades on their behalf. This role is primarily backend on a full-stack team. You'll own the services that make agentic trading feel fast, clear, and trustworthy for millions of customers.
What you'll do:
Own backend services powering Coinbase Advisor and Strategies, from technical design through launch and ongoing operation
Build integrations with Coinbase's trading APIs so agent recommendations and user-configured strategies translate into correct, auditable execution
Develop our agentic harness, including tool calling, orchestration, persistent state, and recovery from failed or partially completed actions
Shape agent behavior through prompt engineering, evals, and conversation analysis, partnering with our registered investment adviser on changes to financial advice
Improve service reliability, latency, observability, and execution safety, including retry behavior and safeguards against duplicate actions
Partner with frontend engineering, product, design, trading infrastructure, and legal/compliance to ship customer-facing capabilities within regulatory guardrails
Required Skills and Experience:
5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep backend expertise and a track record of shipping and operating production services
Strong experience with API design, distributed systems, data modeling, testing, and debugging production failures
Proficiency in Go or demonstrated ability to learn it quickly
Experience building production LLM or agentic systems, including tool calling, orchestration, or evaluation
Proven ability to take ambiguous projects from zero to production with minimal oversight and sound product and technical judgment
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
$186,065—$218,900 USD