Coinbase

Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Payments Platform

Remote - USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$186k-$219kDetected 3 days ago
GoRailsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewLLMsProduct StrategyLeadership

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64Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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Green-card follow-through: 56%

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About the role

  • Ready to do the most impactful work of your career?
  • 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.

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
  • 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
  • Track record of owning features end-to-end, from design through deployment and production support, in a fast-moving environment
  • Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
  • If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here.
  • You'll design and build scalable backend systems that process high-volume payment traffic, working closely with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional partners to expand Coinbase's payment capabilities into new markets and corridors.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with hands-on experience building and maintaining production services in a service-oriented or microservices architecture
  • Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with experience designing scalable, low-latency APIs and distributed systems
  • Experience with financial systems, payments infrastructure, or high-volume transactional systems that require precision and auditability
  • Required Skills and Experience:

Compensation

  • $186,065 - $218,900 USD
  • 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):

Benefits

  • Partner with engineers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate product vision and business requirements into technical plans each quarter

Company info

  • At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
  • We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization.
  • The Payments team builds the infrastructure, workflows, and APIs that power fiat on- and off-ramps for millions of consumers and institutional customers globally, across payment rails, partner integrations, and funds-flow systems.
  • We are turning that stack into an API-driven platform, a Stripe-like product for Coinbase's own Retail, Institutional, and Developer teams, so a new payment method or rail can go live in a fraction of the time it takes today.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com.
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