Senior Backend Engineer - Payments Platform (Go)

Coinbase, Inc.

Dover (DE)

Hybrid

USD 186,000 - 219,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Payments team within the Platform organization. You will design and build scalable backend services for payment processing using Go, delivering end-to-end features across rails and APIs.

You will work with product and leadership to translate business requirements into technical plans, drive reliability, observability, and performance improvements, and contribute to engineering quality through thoughtful code reviews and architectural

Qualifications

5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages with API design skills.
Track record of owning features end-to-end in fast-moving environments.
Experience with financial systems/payments infrastructure or high-volume transactional systems.
Responsible use of generative AI to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for payment processing using Go.
Own end-to-end delivery of payment features from design to production deployment and monitoring.
Build platform primitives and self-serve APIs to add new payment methods and rails.
Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and leadership to translate requirements into technical plans.
Improve reliability, observability, and performance across payment services.
Contribute to engineering quality through code reviews and best-practice advocacy.