Senior Software Engineer Developer (Payments)

The CDP Payments team builds the APIs and infrastructure that let businesses instantly move convert and accept value across fiat currencies stablecoins and crypto — through a single unified API that abstracts away blockchain and payment rail complexity. We power stablecoin payouts cross-border payments and fiat-to-crypto conversions for some of the biggest names in fintech trading and global payments — including major PSPs neobanks remittance providers and institutional clients. 
In short we're building the payment rails of the future where money moves 24/7 instantly across borders and asset types.

What you'll be doing: 

• Design build and ship the core APIs and backend services that power global payments for CDP customers. 
• Owning end-to-end delivery of high-impact features — think integrating new payment rails (Onchain Payments ACH Wire) building stablecoin bank account infrastructure and designing cross-border payment flows that convert fiat to stablecoins and back in seconds. 
• Lead cross-functional projects with Money Movement CDP Foundations and various Platform teams and your code will handle real money flowing through production systems used by some of the largest financial institutions in the world.

What we look for in you: 

• You have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• You are customer-obsessed and love shipping products that delight customers
• You highly value continuous improvement resourcefulness and hold a high bar for yourself and those around you
• Scrappy self-starter mindset with willingness to push through friction to improve customer UX.
• Strong engineering skills; you can build reliable backend services that handle real-world edge cases.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems microservices architecture and event-driven patterns; you design and integrate cleanly with internal and third-party services.
• You write high-quality well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work closely with designers and product managers.
• Passion for great developer tooling and opinions on what makes developer platforms excellent.
• Passion for onchain/Web3 and understanding of blockchain technologies particularly Ethereum and other EVM-compatible chains.
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g. LibreChat Gemini Glean) in daily workflows continuously learn as tools evolve and apply human‑in‑the‑loop practices to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency cost and quality.

Nice to haves: 

• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size).
• You have experience building on top of  Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin Ethereum etc..)
• You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
• You’ve built financial high reliability or security systems.

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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