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Salary: USD 152,405 - 179,300 / annual
Coinbase is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join the Payments Platform team within the Platform group. You will build and operate backend services that power fiat on- and off-ramps for millions of Coinbase customers. This team owns the payment rails, routing, and funds-flow infrastructure connecting Coinbase products to global payment methods and financial partners.
In this role, you will:
- Build and ship backend payment services in Go that process high-volume fiat transactions across multiple payment rails, ensuring correctness and reliability at every step
- Deliver well-scoped projects end-to-end, from technical design through production deployment, contributing to services handling real money movement for consumer and institutional customers
- Contribute to the design and evolution of Payments Platform's distributed systems, participating in architecture discussions and code reviews that improve system reliability and scalability
- Partner with product managers, senior engineers, and cross-functional teams to translate product requirements into technical implementations on a quarterly roadmap cadence
Coinbase is a remote-first company with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges." The environment is intense and high-bar, focused on building the future of finance.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 2+ years building and operating backend services in production, with proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or similar backend languages
- Experience with relational databases (Postgres or similar), service-oriented architectures, and cloud-native development patterns
- Demonstrated ability to deliver projects end-to-end with production-quality, well-tested code in systems where correctness and reliability matter
- Familiarity with financial systems, payment processing, or high-reliability transactional infrastructure
- Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
