Staff Backend Engineer, Payments Platform (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Augusta (ME); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization.

You will own the architecture and technical direction of the payments infrastructure, ensuring reliability and scalability as we expand to new regions and methods. You will lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations, mentor engineers, and drive systematic improvements through architecture reviews and postmortems to raise the bar across the

Qualifications

• Experience building payment systems or financial infrastructure.
• Track record of fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems.
• Experience guiding multi-team architectural decisions.
• Own production reliability and incident response.
• Influence technical direction without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year technical strategy for Payments platform.
• Build and evolve high-volume payment processing systems.
• Establish standards, frameworks, and shared components.
• Collaborate with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations.
• Lead scaling and reliability initiatives with postmortems.
• Mentor engineers and provide architectural guidance.

Skills

Software engineering

Payments systems

Distributed systems

Incident response

Strategic leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization.

You will own the architecture and technical direction of the payments infrastructure, ensuring reliability and scalability as we expand to new regions and methods. You will lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations, mentor engineers, and drive systematic improvements through architecture reviews and postmortems to raise the bar across the