Senior Backend Engineer - Payments Platform (Go) | Remote

Coinbase, Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Híbrido; USD 186.000 - 219.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Descripción de la vacante

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization. You will design and build scalable backend services for payment processing in Go, enabling reliable end-to-end features across high-volume rails.

You will own features from design to production, collaborating with product managers and cross-functional partners to expand payment capabilities globally. The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and performance improvements, with

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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 the platform primitives, extension points, and self-serve APIs that let other Coinbase teams add new payment methods and rails without deep changes to the 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

Conocimientos

Go

Backend design

Distributed systems

Payments systems

Descripción del empleo

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization. You will design and build scalable backend services for payment processing in Go, enabling reliable end-to-end features across high-volume rails.

You will own features from design to production, collaborating with product managers and cross-functional partners to expand payment capabilities globally. The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and performance improvements, with