Senior Go Backend Engineer, Payments Platform (Remote)

Coinbase, Inc.; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team. You will design and build scalable backend services for payment processing using Go, ensuring reliability and correctness for financial transactions at scale.

You will own end-to-end delivery of payment features from design to production, build platform primitives and self-serve APIs, and collaborate with product managers and leadership to translate requirements into technical plans.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Proficient in Go and building high-volume, low-latency APIs.
• Experience with financial/payment systems and auditability.
• Experience owning features end-to-end in a fast-moving environment.
• Responsible use of AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Go

Backend development

Distributed systems

API design

Payment systems

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team. You will design and build scalable backend services for payment processing using Go, ensuring reliability and correctness for financial transactions at scale.

You will own end-to-end delivery of payment features from design to production, build platform primitives and self-serve APIs, and collaborate with product managers and leadership to translate requirements into technical plans.