Senior Engineering Manager, Payments Platform

Coinbase; United States; Hybrid; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Payment Platform to lead a multi-team organization responsible for orchestrating payment flows and connecting Coinbase to the global financial system.

You will define architectural strategy, own reliability, and drive a multi-quarter roadmap with cross-functional partners. You will mentor senior engineers, manage managers, and ensure scalable, compliant settlement across fiat and crypto rails, while aligning with risk, compliance, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years of engineering management experience, including 2+ years managing managers and scaling multi-team organizations.
• Proven track record delivering and operating distributed payment systems, financial infrastructure, or high-volume transactional platforms.
• Strong technical judgment guiding architecture, reliability, and engineering quality for critical financial services.
• Experience setting strategy in regulated environments and coordinating with Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and lead a multi-team engineering organization across Payment Platform.
• Define the technical vision and architectural strategy for payment infrastructure and settlement systems.
• Partner with Product, Finance, Compliance, and Engineering leadership to shape multi-quarter roadmaps.
• Own engineering quality and operational excellence, including SLAs and incident response.
• Drive talent strategy and develop next-generation engineering leaders.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Financial infrastructure

Strategy & roadmap

AI governance

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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