Backend Engineer - Money Movement & Stablecoins

Coinbase; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a backend engineer to own end-to-end projects for stablecoin-powered money movement. You’ll design and deploy backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure to enable fast, secure transfers across the Coinbase ecosystem.

You will collaborate with product, design, infra and compliance to balance speed, security, and regulatory needs, driving performance, scalability, and reliability improvements in distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend systems, ideally in fintech, payments, or crypto.
• Proficiency in backend languages (e.g., Go, Java) and cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), with hands-on experience designing distributed systems and APIs.
• Track record of serving as DRI for 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).
• Demonstrated ability to write technical design documents and communicate 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.

Responsibilities

• Own key projects end-to-end as the Directly Responsible Individual, driving stablecoin-based money movement features from design through deployment.
• Build backend systems, infrastructure, and internal/external APIs enabling embedding stablecoin payments into products.
• Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to translate requirements into scalable solutions balancing speed, security, and regulatory needs.
• Execute performance, scalability, and reliability improvements across distributed systems, identifying bottlenecks and driving fixes.
• Support engineering quality through code reviews and architectural best practices.

Skills

Backend languages

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Blockchain/crypto experience

Technical design docs

AI for workflow improvements

Tools

Go

Java

AWS

GCP

Ethereum

Solana

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a backend engineer to own end-to-end projects for stablecoin-powered money movement. You’ll design and deploy backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure to enable fast, secure transfers across the Coinbase ecosystem.

You will collaborate with product, design, infra and compliance to balance speed, security, and regulatory needs, driving performance, scalability, and reliability improvements in distributed systems.