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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $186,065.0 - $218,900.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Code Review, Distributed Systems, Payment Systems, Fault Tolerance, Payment Service Provider, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Build Management, Stripe, Low Latency, Api Design, Microservices
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-backend-payments-platform-coinbase-10259549

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payments team within the Platform organization. The Payments team builds the infrastructure, workflows, and APIs that power fiat on- and off-ramps for millions of consumers and institutional customers globally, across payment rails, partner integrations, and funds-flow systems. We are turning that stack into an API-driven platform, a Stripe-like product for Coinbase's own Retail, Institutional, and Developer teams, so a new payment method or rail can go live in a fraction of the time it takes today. Our north star is payment success rate: the share of attempted payments that move safely and reliably, end to end. 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
 * Build the platform primitives, extension points, and self-serve APIs that let other Coinbase teams add new payment methods and rails without deep changes to the core services
 * 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


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