Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Payments Platform
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We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization. The Payments team builds the infrastructure that moves fiat currency into crypto, powering payment rails, partner integrations, and funds-flow systems for millions of consumers and institutional customers globally. 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.
- 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.
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- Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions
- Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period
- Disability and Life Insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Wellness Stipend
- Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
- Volunteer Time Off
- Fertility Counseling and Benefits
- Generous Time off/Leave Policy
- The option of getting paid in digital currency