Backend Engineer - Fintech & Crypto Payments (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; Topeka (KS); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a backend engineer to own key projects end-to-end within the Money Movement team. You will design and build backend systems powering stablecoin-based payments, payouts, and on-chain interactions, collaborating with product, infra, and compliance.

You'll optimize performance and reliability across distributed services, contribute to architecture decisions, and ensure security and regulatory alignment while delivering business-ready APIs for partners and customers.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering building backend systems.
• Proficiency in Go or Java and cloud (AWS/GCP).
• Experience delivering end-to-end as DRI from design to production.
• Experience with blockchain/crypto technologies such as stablecoins, on‑chain payments, or smart contracts.
• Ability to write design docs and communicate architecture trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own key projects end-to-end as the DRI, driving stablecoin-based money-movement features from design to production deployment.
• Build backend systems, infrastructure, and APIs for embedding stablecoin payments.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Infra, and Compliance to balance speed, security, and regulatory needs.
• Improve performance, scalability, and reliability across distributed systems.
• Contribute to engineering quality through code reviews and best practices.

Skills

Go

Java

AWS

GCP

backend design

distributed systems

blockchain crypto

technical design docs

DRI delivery

stakeholder comms

Tools

Ethereum

Solana

Base

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a backend engineer to own key projects end-to-end within the Money Movement team. You will design and build backend systems powering stablecoin-based payments, payouts, and on-chain interactions, collaborating with product, infra, and compliance.

You'll optimize performance and reliability across distributed services, contribute to architecture decisions, and ensure security and regulatory alignment while delivering business-ready APIs for partners and customers.