Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Consumer - Agentic Trading)
Coinbase · Remote - USA
About this role
**Company:** Coinbase **Team:** Coinbase Advisor (Consumer & Business) **Role:** Staff Software Engineer — Backend (Consumer - Agentic Trading) --- ## Overview Coinbase is hiring a **Staff Software Engineer** to join the **Coinbase Advisor** team. Coinbase Advisor is the world’s first **RIA-licensed agentic trading system**—an AI advisor inside the Coinbase app that holds a natural conversation about a user’s portfolio, provides personalized financial advice, and executes trades on the user’s behalf. This role is **primarily backend** on a full-stack team. You’ll own services that make agentic trading **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 trading APIs** so recommendations and user-configured strategies translate into **correct, auditable execution**. - Develop the **agentic harness**, including **tool calling**, **orchestration**, **persistent state**, and **recovery** from failed or partially completed actions. - Shape agent behavior via **prompt engineering**, **evals**, and **conversation analysis**, partnering with the **registered investment adviser** on changes to financial advice. - Improve **reliability, latency, observability, and execution safety**, including retry behavior and safeguards against **duplicate actions**. - Partner with **frontend**, **product**, **design**, **trading infrastructure**, and **legal/compliance** to ship customer-facing capabilities within **regulatory guardrails**. --- ## Required skills & experience - **5+ years** of professional software engineering experience with strong **backend** expertise and a track record of shipping/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/agentic systems** (e.g., tool calling, orchestration, evaluation). - Proven ability to take **ambiguous projects** from zero to production with minimal oversight and strong product/technical judgment. - Ability to use **generative AI responsibly**, maintaining **human oversight** and delivering measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality. --- ## Position ID **P79041** --- ## Pay transparency (base salary range) **$218,025 – $256,500 USD** (excluding equity and bonus; benefits may include medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)). --- ## Notes - **Application limit:** Maximum of **3 applications within a 6-month period**. - Coinbase is an **Equal Opportunity Employer**. - **Accommodations:** If you need a reasonable accommodation, email **accommodations[at]coinbase.com**.
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