Software Engineer, Backend - Payments Platform
Coinbase · Remote - USA
About this role
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we’re uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. Coinbase is remote-first (but not remote-only). Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called **“surges.”** --- ## Role: Software Engineer, Backend — Payments Platform As a Software Engineer on the **Payments Platform** team within the **Platform** group, you’ll build the 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. You’ll deliver features and services where every transaction must be **correct, secure, and reliable**, working across the stack to help scale one of the most critical systems in crypto. --- ## What you’ll do - 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 that handle 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 to improve 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. --- ## Required skills and experience - **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 end-to-end projects with **production-quality, well-tested** code in systems where correctness and reliability matter. - Familiarity with **financial systems**, **payment processing**, or **high-reliability transactional infrastructure**. - Uses **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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