Senior Engineering Manager, Payments Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Payment Platform within the Platform group. You will lead the engineering organization responsible for orchestrating the payment flow and the network connecting Coinbase to the global financial system.

You’ll build and scale multiple teams, define the technical vision, and partner with leadership to drive the multi-quarter roadmap. You will own engineering quality and operational excellence, overseeing incident response and SLAs while

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years of engineering management experience (including 2+ years managing managers)
• Experience delivering and operating high-volume financial/infrastructure platforms
• Strong technical judgment on architecture, reliability and quality
• Experience in regulated environments with Risk/Compliance
• Uses generative AI with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and lead a multi-team engineering organization across Payment Platform
• Define technical vision and architectural strategy for Payment Platform infrastructure
• Partner with Product, Finance, Compliance, and Engineering leadership on multi-quarter roadmap
• Own engineering quality and operational excellence across Payment Platform
• Drive talent strategy and develop next-generation engineering leaders

Skills

Software engineering management

Multi-team leadership

Distributed payment systems

Regulated environments

AI in workflow improvements

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it's a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called "surges." learn more about working at Coinbase.

As a Senior Engineering Manager for Payment Platform within the Platform group, you'll lead the engineering organization responsible for orchestrating the payment flow and the network connecting Coinbase to the global financial system. Payment Platform owns the infrastructure that bridges traditional finance and crypto - on-ramp and off-ramp processing, bank and card network integrations, and stablecoin settlement - spanning fiat and crypto rails across financial institutions worldwide. You'll build and scale multiple engineering teams, set the technical vision for Payment Platform integration and settlement systems, and partner with Product, Finance, Compliance, and Engineering leadership to drive the multi-quarter roadmap for how money moves in and out of Coinbase.

What you’ll do:

• Build, scale, and lead a multi-team engineering organization across Payment Platform, managing engineering managers and senior ICs while coaching the org on technical excellence and career development

• Define the technical vision and architectural strategy for Payment Platform infrastructure, driving decisions on bank/card network connectivity, stablecoin settlement, reconciliation, and failover across a large and growing set of financial institution partners

• Partner with Product, Finance, Compliance, and Engineering leadership to shape and execute the multi-quarter roadmap, translating regulatory constraints and partner-integration complexity into iterative, shippable milestones

• Own engineering quality and operational excellence across Payment Platform, including SLA accountability, incident response, and the engineering standards that ensure funds move correctly and on time at scale

• Drive talent strategy for the Payment Platform engineering org, partnering with recruiting to identify exceptional engineers with payments/fintech infrastructure depth and developing the next generation of engineering leaders within the team

Required Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years of engineering management experience, including 2+ years managing managers and scaling multi-team engineering organizations

• Proven track record delivering and operating distributed payment systems, financial infrastructure, or high-volume transactional platforms at scale, with deep understanding of rails such as ACH, cards, SEPA, or wire transfers

• Strong technical judgment with demonstrated ability to guide architecture, reliability, and engineering quality for critical financial services, including hands-on operational leadership through incidents and service health management

• Experience setting strategy and delivering complex work through multiple teams in regulated environments, partnering closely with Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Operations to balance speed, safety, and regulatory requirements

• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$253,895-$298,700 USD

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