Remote Backend Engineer: Stablecoin Money Movement

Coinbase, Inc.; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 94,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is a remote-first company seeking a backend engineer to power the Money Movement initiative. You will own end-to-end delivery of stablecoin-based transfers, build scalable APIs, and collaborate with product, design, infra, and compliance to ensure secure, compliant solutions.

You will work on distributed systems, optimize performance, and contribute to engineering quality through design docs and code reviews. Remote-friendly with quarterly in-person surges.

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 design to production.
• Experience integrating with or building on blockchain or crypto technologies such as stablecoins, on-chain payments, or smart contract platforms (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 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 production deployment.
• Build backend systems, infrastructure, and internal/external APIs to enable embedding stablecoin-powered 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 and drive 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

Go

Java

AWS

GCP

Distributed systems

APIs

DRI

Blockchain / crypto

Technical writing

Job description

Coinbase is a remote-first company seeking a backend engineer to power the Money Movement initiative. You will own end-to-end delivery of stablecoin-based transfers, build scalable APIs, and collaborate with product, design, infra, and compliance to ensure secure, compliant solutions.

You will work on distributed systems, optimize performance, and contribute to engineering quality through design docs and code reviews. Remote-friendly with quarterly in-person surges.