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Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. 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. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough" you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
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.
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)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal state and local laws.
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- 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. Need screen reading technology? Click here to download a free compatible screen reader and view the tutorial.
- Data Privacy & Arbitration: By submitting your application you agree to our Candidate Privacy Notice. US applicants: By submitting your application you agree to Arbitration of Disputes.
- AI Disclosure: Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining production services in a service-oriented or microservices architecture
- Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages
- Experience designing scalable low-latency APIs and distributed systems
- Track record of owning features end-to-end from design through deployment and production support
- Experience with financial systems payments infrastructure or high-volume transactional systems requiring precision and auditability
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs
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Coinbase uses a market-driven pay-for-performance approach to keep pay and bonus plans competitive. Coinbase regularly benchmarks roles against leading technology and fintech companies using external market data and reviews its compensation programs on a recurring basis to ensure salary bonus and equity remain aligned with the broader market and business goals. Annual bonus and equity programs are tied to both company results and individual impact so when Coinbase and its people perform total rewards reflect that performance.
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What We Do
Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets including trading staking safekeeping spending and fast free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.
Why Work With Us
We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world to help people control their own wealth start companies have financial privacy and participate in the global economy. And to get us there we focus build and move as a team.
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