Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Payments Platform)

at Coinbase
📍 World
CAD 217,900 per year
SENIOR
✅ Remote

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Docker @ 4 Kafka @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 4 Leadership @ 4 AWS @ 4 gRPC @ 4 CCPA @ 4 GDPR @ 4 API @ 4 Technical Leadership @ 4 Databricks @ 4 Snowflake @ 4 Ethereum @ 4

Details

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. The Platform Product Group builds trusted, scalable and compliant platforms used across Coinbase. The Payments team is building payment infrastructures, workflows and APIs to enable fiat-to-crypto flows and large-scale institutional and consumer payments.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, in-person participation is required throughout the year (team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually). Attendance is expected and supported.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and develop a payments platform that processes payments at massive scale (billions of dollars globally)
  • Provide technical structure to teams and collaborate with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines and deliverables using technical expertise
  • Mentor and train other engineers on design techniques and coding standards
  • Write high-quality, well-tested code and remain hands-on with coding
  • Plan and implement multi-year engineering strategy for Payments with technical leadership
  • Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to translate vision into a quarterly roadmap
  • Engage with upstream teams and enforce SLAs for data availability and quality
  • Add positive energy in meetings and foster inclusive team interactions

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Demonstrated experience building large distributed systems
  • Experience building simple, scalable, and fault-tolerant APIs
  • Strong software engineering practices and the ability to uplift junior engineers via processes and high standards
  • Hands-on experience writing well-tested production code
  • Passion for building an open financial system and interest in crypto and blockchain technologies

Nice to haves

  • Experience with Golang, gRPC, Docker, Kafka, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks
  • Experience in the financial/payments domain
  • Crypto-forward experience (onchain activity, interacting with Ethereum addresses, ENS, dApps or other blockchain-based services)

Compensation and Additional Notes

  • Job #: GPBE06US
  • Pay Range (dependent on location): $217,900 — $217,900 CAD
  • Full-time offers include target bonus and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k) where applicable)
  • Answers to crypto-related questions may be used to evaluate onchain experience
  • #LI-Remote

Benefits

  • Extended health care (coordinates with provincial coverage)
  • Dental and vision care
  • Virtual health care (Consult+)
  • Life & accident insurance, disability coverage
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Wellness stipend, connections stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement
  • Learning and development allowance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Travel medical policy (global traveler)
  • Fertility benefits
  • Generous time off / leave policy

Equal Opportunity & Privacy

Coinbase is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Candidate personal data is handled according to applicable privacy regulations (GDPR/CCPA where applicable).