Senior Payments Platform Engineering Leader (Remote-First)

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

Job summary

Coinbase 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, spanning fiat and crypto rails across banks and card networks.

You will build and scale multiple teams, set the technical vision, partner with Product, Finance, Compliance and Engineering leadership to drive multi-quarter roadmaps, and own

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Multi-team leadership

Payments / fintech

AI governance

Job description

Coinbase 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, spanning fiat and crypto rails across banks and card networks.

You will build and scale multiple teams, set the technical vision, partner with Product, Finance, Compliance and Engineering leadership to drive multi-quarter roadmaps, and own