Job brief: Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Consumer - Agentic Trading)

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Coinbase's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-06 (1 day ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
• The apply link opens coinbase.com, the address Coinbase's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $218,025 to $256,500 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Remote - USA · US - Remote Zone 1 (Job Requisitions Only)
• Posted: 2026-11-06

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• 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,…
• 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

Main duties

• 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 …
• Improve service reliability, latency, observability, and execution safety, including retry behavior and safeguards against duplicate actions

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs across the U.S.: $187k a year (1,148 listings, 68 employers). This listing is 27% higher.
• Across Coinbase's 187 open listings, 35% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Coinbase hires

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