Remote Backend Engineer, Money Movement & Stablecoins

Coinbase, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. invites you to join the Money Movement team within the Developer product group, shaping the infrastructure powering global payments.

You will design and build backend systems for stablecoin-based flows and APIs that enable secure transfers across the Coinbase ecosystem and beyond. You will own key projects end-to-end as the Directly Responsible Individual, collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance, and drive performance, reliability, and scalable solutions

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), 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 system design through production deployment with high accountability.
• Build backend systems, infrastructure, and internal/external APIs that enable businesses and partners to embed stablecoin-powered payments into their products.
• Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to translate requirements into robust, scalable solutions that balance speed, security, and regulatory needs.
• Execute performance, scalability, and reliability improvements across distributed systems, identifying bottlenecks and driving fixes before they impact customers.
• Support the team's engineering quality through code reviews, architectural best practices, and contributing to patterns that raise the technical bar.

Skills

Software engineering

DRI ownership

Blockchain/crypto

Technical design docs

AI usage

Distributed systems

Go

Java

AWS

GCP

Tools

Go

Java

AWS

GCP

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. invites you to join the Money Movement team within the Developer product group, shaping the infrastructure powering global payments.

You will design and build backend systems for stablecoin-based flows and APIs that enable secure transfers across the Coinbase ecosystem and beyond. You will own key projects end-to-end as the Directly Responsible Individual, collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance, and drive performance, reliability, and scalable solutions