Backend Engineer, Money Movement & Stablecoins Infra

Coinbase, Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly in-person surges

Remote-first work model

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company that values intense collaboration and pushing beyond limits. The Money Movement team within the Developer product group designs and builds backend systems powering stablecoin-based pay-ins, payouts, deposits, and withdrawals.

You will own key projects as the Directly Responsible Individual, drive scalable architecture, and work with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to balance speed, security, and regulatory needs.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend systems, ideally in fintech, payments, or crypto.
• Proficiency in backend languages (Go, Java) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP).
• Track record of serving as DRI for technical projects, driving end-to-end delivery from design through production.

Responsibilities

• Own key projects end-to-end as the Directly Responsible Individual, driving stablecoin-based money movement features from design to production deployment.
• Build backend systems, infrastructure, and internal/external APIs enabling embeddings of stablecoin payments.
• Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to translate requirements into robust, 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

Go

Java

AWS

GCP

Distributed systems design

DRI for projects

Blockchain/crypto familiarity

Technical design docs

Tools

REST APIs

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first company that values intense collaboration and pushing beyond limits. The Money Movement team within the Developer product group designs and builds backend systems powering stablecoin-based pay-ins, payouts, deposits, and withdrawals.

You will own key projects as the Directly Responsible Individual, drive scalable architecture, and work with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to balance speed, security, and regulatory needs.