Senior Backend Engineer, Payments Platform

Engg; United States; Remote; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization. You will design and build scalable backend systems in Go for high-volume payment processing, owning features end-to-end, and collaborating with product, engineering, and leadership to expand payment capabilities globally.

This remote-first role emphasizes reliability and performance across consumer, institutional, and developer experiences, with quarterly in-person surges and a transparent

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend experience in production services.
• Go or similar language; design low-latency APIs.
• Ownership of features end-to-end in fast-moving environments.
• Experience with payments infrastructure or high-volume transactional systems.
• Responsible use of AI to improve workflows and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services for payment processing using Go.
• Own end-to-end delivery of payment features from design through deployment.
• Build platform primitives and self-serve APIs for new payment methods.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and leadership to translate vision into plans.
• Improve reliability, observability, and performance; resolve bottlenecks.
• Contribute to engineering quality through code reviews and best practices.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

End-to-end ownership

Payments systems

AI governance

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization. You will design and build scalable backend systems in Go for high-volume payment processing, owning features end-to-end, and collaborating with product, engineering, and leadership to expand payment capabilities globally.

This remote-first role emphasizes reliability and performance across consumer, institutional, and developer experiences, with quarterly in-person surges and a transparent