Senior Backend Engineer, Payments Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization.

The Payments team builds the infrastructure, workflows, and APIs that power fiat on- and off-ramps for millions of consumers and institutional customers globally, across payment rails, partner integrations, and funds-flow systems. We are turning that stack into an API-driven platform, a Stripe-like product for Coinbase's Retail, Institutional, and Developer teams, so a new payment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with hands-on experience building and maintaining production services in a service-oriented or microservices architecture
• Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with experience designing scalable, low-latency APIs and distributed systems
• Track record of owning features end-to-end, from design through deployment and production support, in a fast-moving environment
• Experience with financial systems, payments infrastructure, or high-volume transactional systems that require precision and auditability
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for payment processing using Go, ensuring high reliability and correctness for financial transactions at scale
• Own end-to-end delivery of payment features, from technical design through production deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Build platform primitives, extension points, and self-serve APIs that let other Coinbase teams add new payment methods and rails without deep changes to core services
• Partner with engineers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate product vision and business requirements into technical plans each quarter
• Drive improvements to system reliability, observability, and performance across payment services, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks
• Contribute to engineering quality through thoughtful code reviews, design discussions, and advocacy for best practices in service-oriented architecture

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

APIs

Distributed systems

End-to-end ownership

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization.

The Payments team builds the infrastructure, workflows, and APIs that power fiat on- and off-ramps for millions of consumers and institutional customers globally, across payment rails, partner integrations, and funds-flow systems. We are turning that stack into an API-driven platform, a Stripe-like product for Coinbase's Retail, Institutional, and Developer teams, so a new payment