Senior Software Engineer

BASE Foundation

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at Base.org working on scalable backend services for crypto products. Leading technical direction and collaborating across multiple engineering teams.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $145,680 - $172,853 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the architecture and development of scalable backend services powering the next generation of crypto products — including risk platform, notifications platform, and dynamic presentation systems.
Build and scale user-facing experiences across the full Coinbase product journey — from SEO and logged-out discovery through onboarding, trading, and investing — touching web, mobile, backend, data, and ML.
Drive technical quality and performance across complex systems at scale — defining the right metrics and SLOs, and holding the bar on reliability and latency for real-time applications.
Lead horizontal technical direction across multiple engineering teams — collaborating with leaders across the company to influence architecture decisions and unblock high-impact initiatives.
Shape scalable, reusable solutions that can be leveraged across Coinbase — building the growth engine infrastructure that enables the team to iterate faster and compound results.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with deep expertise in building and operating distributed systems at scale.
Demonstrated track record of horizontal technical leadership across multiple engineering teams — influencing architecture, quality, and delivery without direct authority.
Proven ability to architect systems that handle high-frequency, low-latency workloads with stringent reliability requirements.
Experience collaborating with senior engineering and product leaders to drive technical direction and make high-stakes trade-offs.
Passion for building products and systems that deliver measurable impact to the business — with a strong bias toward fast iteration and results orientation.
Utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

Comp & perks

equity
bonus eligibility
benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend software engineeringdistributed systemsarchitecture designhigh-frequency workloadslow-latency systemstechnical quality metricsSLOsgenerative AIscalable solutionsreal-time applications

Soft Skills

horizontal technical leadershipcollaborationinfluence without authorityresults orientationfast iterationcommunicationproblem-solvingdecision-makingimpact-driven mindsetteam leadership