Senior Backend Engineer, Payments Platform (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Payments team.

You will design and build scalable backend services powering fiat on- and off-ramps and collaborate with product, engineering, and cross-functional partners to expand payment capabilities globally. You’ll own end-to-end delivery of features, focus on reliability and observability, and help evolve the API-driven platform for Retail, Institutional, and Developer teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience in service-oriented or microservices architectures.
• Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages with low-latency API design.
• Experience with financial systems, payments infrastructure, or high-volume transactions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for payment processing.
• Own end-to-end delivery of payment features from design to production deployment.
• Build platform primitives and self-serve APIs for other teams to add payment methods and rails.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and leadership to translate requirements into technical plans.
• Improve system reliability, observability, and performance across payment services.
• Contribute to engineering quality through code reviews and SOA best practices.

Skills

Go

API design

Distributed systems

End-to-end ownership

Financial systems

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Payments team.

You will design and build scalable backend services powering fiat on- and off-ramps and collaborate with product, engineering, and cross-functional partners to expand payment capabilities globally. You’ll own end-to-end delivery of features, focus on reliability and observability, and help evolve the API-driven platform for Retail, Institutional, and Developer teams.