Backend Engineer, Stablecoin Payments (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a backend engineer to own core money movement features within the Money Movement team. You will design, build, and operate backend systems and APIs powering stablecoin-based payments, deposits, payouts, and withdrawals at scale.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to balance speed, security, and regulatory requirements while driving performance and reliability improvements across distributed systems.

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).
• Experience delivering end-to-end technical projects as DRI from design to production.
• Familiarity with blockchain/crypto technologies such as stablecoins or on-chain payments.

Responsibilities

• Own key projects end-to-end as the Directly Responsible Individual, driving money movement features from design to production.
• Build backend systems, infrastructure, and APIs enabling stablecoin-based 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 architecture patterns.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go/Java

AWS/GCP

Distributed systems

DRI for projects

Blockchain/crypto

Technical design docs

Generative AI usage

Tools

Go

Java

AWS

GCP

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a backend engineer to own core money movement features within the Money Movement team. You will design, build, and operate backend systems and APIs powering stablecoin-based payments, deposits, payouts, and withdrawals at scale.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to balance speed, security, and regulatory requirements while driving performance and reliability improvements across distributed systems.