Remote-First Senior Staff Software Engineer - Payments

Coinbase, Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 234,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Platform Payments team to shape the engineering vision for fiat movement across 50+ countries. You will own multi-quarter strategy, design high-availability global platforms, and drive cross-team initiatives to improve payment success, latency, and cost efficiency.

You will mentor senior engineers, collaborate with risk, regulatory, and product teams, and set standards for financial correctness across money-movement paths, while

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Deep money-movement architecture experience including PSPs, ISO 20022, routing, double-entry ledgering.
• Proven track record designing highly available, high-performance systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams and mentoring senior engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly to executive and cross-org stakeholders.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for Payments spanning rails, orchestration, and transfers to support new products, geos, and significant growth in payment volume.
• Architect and evolve the core Payments platform (rails integrations, routing, and funds-flow services) for high availability, low latency, and cost efficiency at global scale.
• Lead end-to-end design and rollout of large, cross-team initiatives, breaking ambiguity into clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
• Set and enforce technical standards for financial correctness across Payments, including idempotency, reconciliation, failure-mode handling, and auditability for all money-movement paths.
• Partner with FinHub, Payments Risk, Regulatory Platform, and Product to design cohesive architectures that balance customer experience, risk controls, compliance, and unit economics.
• Provide deep technical mentorship to senior and staff engineers across Payments pods, upleveling system design quality, review rigor, and long-term maintainability.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

Mentoring

Cross-functional initiatives

Executive communication

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Platform Payments team to shape the engineering vision for fiat movement across 50+ countries. You will own multi-quarter strategy, design high-availability global platforms, and drive cross-team initiatives to improve payment success, latency, and cost efficiency.

You will mentor senior engineers, collaborate with risk, regulatory, and product teams, and set standards for financial correctness across money-movement paths, while