Backend Engineer - Money Movement & Crypto Payments

Coinbase, Inc.; Trenton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is recruiting a senior backend engineer to design, build, and operate distributed backend systems powering stablecoin-based payments and transfers.

You will own end-to-end delivery, collaborating with product, design, compliance, and infrastructure teams to balance speed, security, and regulatory requirements. Requirements include 2+ years in backend engineering, proficiency in Go or Java, and experience with AWS/GCP, distributed systems, and APIs.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend systems.
• Experience with backend languages and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience designing distributed systems and APIs.
• Knowledge of blockchain or crypto technologies such as stablecoins or on-chain payments.

Responsibilities

• Own key projects end-to-end as Directly Responsible Individual for stablecoin-based money movement features.
• Build backend systems, infrastructure, and APIs for embedding stablecoin payments.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to balance speed, security, and regulatory needs.
• Improve performance, scalability, and reliability across distributed systems and address bottlenecks.
• Contribute to architectural patterns and code reviews to raise engineering quality.

Skills

Go

Java

AWS

GCP

Distributed systems

DRI

APIs

Blockchain integration

Tools

Go

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is recruiting a senior backend engineer to design, build, and operate distributed backend systems powering stablecoin-based payments and transfers.

You will own end-to-end delivery, collaborating with product, design, compliance, and infrastructure teams to balance speed, security, and regulatory requirements. Requirements include 2+ years in backend engineering, proficiency in Go or Java, and experience with AWS/GCP, distributed systems, and APIs.