Remote-First Backend Engineer, Stablecoin Payments

Coinbase, Inc.; Lansing (MI); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Backend Engineer to own key money-movement features, designing and operating backend systems and APIs that power stable and scalable transfers.

You'll collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure and Compliance to balance speed, security and regulatory needs, while improving performance and reliability across distributed systems. This remote-first role includes quarterly in-person surges to align teams.

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 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

Backend engineering

Go

Java

Distributed systems design

APIs

DRI ownership

Crypto/blockchain integration

Technical design docs

Generative AI usage

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Backend Engineer to own key money-movement features, designing and operating backend systems and APIs that power stable and scalable transfers.

You'll collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure and Compliance to balance speed, security and regulatory needs, while improving performance and reliability across distributed systems. This remote-first role includes quarterly in-person surges to align teams.