- Company: Coinbase
- Location: Remote – Canada
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: CAD 217,900 – 217,900
About the role
Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Consumer & Business group. You will work on the Coinbase Advisor team, which develops the world’s first RIA-licensed agentic trading system. This AI advisor provides personalized financial advice and executes trades within the Coinbase app. The role is primarily backend-focused within a full-stack team. Coinbase operates as a remote-first company, though employees are expected to attend quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
Responsibilities
- Own backend services for Coinbase Advisor and Strategies, from design through launch and operation.
- Build integrations with trading APIs to ensure agent recommendations and user strategies result in correct, auditable execution.
- Develop the agentic harness, including tool calling, orchestration, persistent state, and recovery mechanisms.
- Shape agent behavior through prompt engineering, evaluations, and conversation analysis in partnership with registered investment advisers.
- Improve service reliability, latency, observability, and execution safety, including safeguards against duplicate actions.
- Collaborate with frontend, product, design, trading infrastructure, and legal/compliance teams to ship capabilities within regulatory guardrails.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep backend expertise.
- Strong experience with API design, distributed systems, data modeling, testing, and debugging production failures.
- Proficiency in Go or a 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.
- Responsibility in utilizing generative AI while maintaining human oversight.
Pay and benefits
The annual base salary range is CAD 217,900 to CAD 217,900. Total compensation may also include equity, bonus eligibility, and benefits such as medical, dental, and vision coverage.
How to apply
Apply directly on Coinbase’s own careers website. Omadaily never charges job seekers.
