Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Payments Platform
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. Our north star is payment success rate: the share of attempted payments that move safely and reliably, end to end. 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.
What you'll do:
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
Required Skills and Experience:
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
Track record of owning features end-to-end, from design through deployment and production support, in a fast-moving environment
Experience with financial systems, payments infrastructure, or high-volume transactional systems that require precision and auditability
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):
$186,065—$218,900 USD