Senior Software Engineer, CDP - Money Movement

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Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency — it's a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Join the Money Movement team within the Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) and help build the infrastructure powering the future of global payments. CDP brings together payments, trading, wallets, and stablecoins through a single onboarding flow and self-service APIs. You'll design and build the core backend systems for stablecoin-based pay-ins, payouts, deposits, and withdrawals, enabling fast, secure, and scalable transfers across borders and platforms that underpin how value moves across the Coinbase ecosystem and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend systems and infrastructure that power stablecoin-based money movement, including pay-ins, payouts, deposits, and withdrawals.
• Own key projects end-to-end as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI), driving them from design through production with high accountability.
• Build internal and external APIs that enable businesses and partners to embed stablecoin-powered payments into their products.
• Partner with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to deliver robust, scalable solutions.
• Identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability challenges across distributed systems.
• Mentor engineers on architectural best practices and contribute to raising the technical bar across the team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating large-scale backend systems, ideally in fintech, payments, or crypto.
• Proficiency in backend languages (e.g., Go, Java, or similar) and cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), with hands-on experience designing distributed systems and APIs.
• Track record of serving as DRI for complex technical projects, driving end-to-end delivery from system design through production deployment.
• Experience integrating with or building on blockchain or crypto technologies such as stablecoins, on-chain payments, or smart contract platforms (e.g., Ethereum, Solana, Base).
• Proven ability to write technical design documents and communicate system architecture trade-offs to product and engineering stakeholders.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality. Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows and apply human-in-the-loop practices.

Compensation

• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $191,100 CAD — $191,100 CAD.
• Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).

Additional Information

• Application limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides accommodations for applicants with disabilities (contact: accommodations[at]coinbase.com).
• Coinbase is piloting AI tools for initial screening interviews and interview intelligence; they state AI will not be used to make employment decisions.