Senior Software Engineer, CoinDesk Media

About Bullish

Bullish is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services. These include:
Bullish Exchange – a regulated and institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange, integrating a high‑performance central limit order book matching engine with automated market making to provide deep and predictable liquidity. Bullish Exchange is regulated in Germany, Hong Kong, and Gibraltar.
Coin Desk Indices – a collection of tradable proprietary and single‑asset benchmarks and indices that track the performance of digital assets for global institutions in the digital assets and traditional finance industries.
Coin Desk Data – a broad suite of digital assets market data and analytics, providing real‑time insights into prices, trends, and market dynamics.
Coin Desk Insights – a digital asset media and events provider and operator of , a digital media platform that covers news and insights about digital assets, the underlying markets, policy, and blockchain technology.

Reports to: Director, Engineering, Coin Desk

At Bullish & Coin Desk, we are engineering the institutional standard for the digital asset industry. Our mission is to build a platform centered on security and compliance, requiring a commitment to technical excellence that extends beyond simply delivering code. As a global organization, we set a high bar for those driven to do their best work alongside world‑class peers.

We value engineers who treat development as a craft and own the outcome from concept to deployment. We expect our teams to bring structure to ambiguity and shape the frameworks that support our global organization. We refuse to compromise on quality and seek problem solvers who thrive on high‑impact technical challenges.

Our Media Engineering team is the technical engine behind the world’s leading digital asset information platform. They are responsible for the architecture, development, and continuous optimization of  and its accompanying mobile applications, ensuring millions of global users have seamless access to real‑time news, market data, and multimedia content.

We’re looking for Senior Software Engineers with expertise in Node.js and React to help build our next‑generation media products. This role is all about designing and building innovative products that deliver crypto news, insights, and experiences to millions of users, with a focus on user experience, modern engineering practices, and continuous iteration. You’ll be working on products that distribute and personalize content, making Coin Desk a daily habit for crypto enthusiasts and investors.

This includes building high‑performance and scalable backend systems and engaging web and mobile experiences.

If you love working across the stack, enjoy tackling engineering challenges, and want to make an impact in the media and content space, we’d love to hear from you!

• Build and maintain back‑end services and React front‑end applications that power real‑time content delivery, monetization, and interactive features across web and mobile.
• Build and integrate AI‑powered agentic workflows into our products and internal tooling, leveraging LLMs and emerging AI capabilities.
• Work with product teams to improve SEO strategies, optimize page speed, and ensure best practices for web performance and indexing.
• Instrument features, analyze outcomes, and iterate based on data, working closely with designers, product managers, and editors to build user‑centric products.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands‑on expertise in React.js, Node.js, Type Script, and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Next.js for server‑side rendering, content caching, and web performance optimization.
• Hands‑on experience with GCP, including services like Cloud Run, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Strong experience with automated testing strategies, including unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Experience building with AI agents, LLM integrations, or agentic development patterns (e.g., tool use, RAG, multi‑step…