Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Payments Platform

at Coinbase

📍 United States

USD 186,100-218,900 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

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Details

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization. The team builds infrastructure, workflows, and APIs powering fiat on- and off-ramps for millions of consumers and institutional customers globally, across payment rails, partner integrations, and funds-flow systems. The team is developing an API-driven platform that enables Coinbase's Retail, Institutional, and Developer teams to add payment methods and rails more efficiently.

Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Employees are expected to meet quarterly for in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for payment processing using Go, with high reliability and correctness for financial transactions at scale.
Own end-to-end delivery of payment features, from technical design through production deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
Build platform primitives, extension points, and self-service APIs that enable other Coinbase teams to add payment methods and rails without significant changes to core services.
Partner with engineers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate product vision and business requirements into quarterly technical plans.
Improve reliability, observability, and performance across payment services, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks.
Contribute to engineering quality through code reviews, design discussions, and advocacy for best practices in service-oriented architecture.

Requirements

5+ years of backend software engineering experience, including hands-on experience building and maintaining production services in a service-oriented or microservices architecture.
Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with experience designing scalable, low-latency APIs and distributed systems.
A track record of owning features end to end, from design through deployment and production support, in a fast-moving environment.
Experience with financial systems, payments infrastructure, or high-volume transactional systems requiring precision and auditability.
Ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight while delivering business-ready outputs and improving workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Compensation

Annual base salary: $186,065–$218,900 USD, excluding equity and bonus.
Total compensation may also include equity, bonus eligibility, and medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.

Additional Information

Candidates may submit a maximum of three applications within a six-month period.
Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
Applicants agree to Coinbase's Candidate Privacy Notice and, for US applicants, arbitration of disputes when submitting an application.