Remote-First Backend Engineer, Stablecoin Payments & APIs

Coinbase, Inc.; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, a remote-first company, is hiring for a backend-focused role within the Money Movement team. You will design and build infrastructure powering stablecoin-based payments, and collaborate with product, design, and compliance to deliver secure and scalable solutions.

You will own projects end-to-end as the DRI, drive production deployments, and contribute to reliability and performance improvements across distributed systems, including on-chain integrations.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of backend software engineering experience, fintech/payments/crypto preferred.
• Proficiency in backend languages (Go, Java) and cloud infra (AWS, GCP).
• Experience designing distributed systems and APIs.
• Proven track record as DRI for end-to-end technical projects.
• Experience with blockchain/crypto technologies such as stablecoins or on-chain payments.
• Ability to write technical design docs and communicate trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own key backend projects end-to-end as the DRI, delivering stablecoin-based money movement features from design to production.
• Build backend systems, infra, and APIs to enable embedding payments into partner products.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to balance speed, security, and regulatory needs.
• Improve performance, scalability, and reliability across distributed systems and resolve bottlenecks.
• Contribute to engineering quality through code reviews and architectural best practices.

Job description

Coinbase, a remote-first company, is hiring for a backend-focused role within the Money Movement team. You will design and build infrastructure powering stablecoin-based payments, and collaborate with product, design, and compliance to deliver secure and scalable solutions.

You will own projects end-to-end as the DRI, drive production deployments, and contribute to reliability and performance improvements across distributed systems, including on-chain integrations.