Senior Backend Engineer - Subscriptions & Payments

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

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for the Coinbase One team. You will own backend services powering the membership lifecycle, including sign-up, subscription management, and recurring payments.

You will collaborate with frontend, product, design, and payments teams to ship scalable features that drive subscriber growth and retention across Coinbase's retail app, while improving reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience shipping at scale.
• Experience building subscription, payments, or commerce systems.
• Proficiency in Go or a similar language and API design.

Responsibilities

• Own design, development, and operation of backend services powering Coinbase One.
• Build scalable platform capabilities for targeted benefits and promotions.
• Collaborate with frontend, product, design, and payments teams to ship features.
• Drive backend architecture decisions ensuring reliability and integration.
• Improve service reliability, observability, performance, and resolve issues.

Skills

5+ years backend experience

Subscription payments systems

Go or similar language

APIs & distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

AI usage with human oversight

Tools

Go

Java

C++

Rust

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend for the Coinbase One team. You will own backend services powering the membership lifecycle, including sign-up, subscription management, and recurring payments.

You will collaborate with frontend, product, design, and payments teams to ship scalable features that drive subscriber growth and retention across Coinbase's retail app, while improving reliability and performance.