Staff Software Enginer, Backend - Payments Platform

CoinbaseNorth AmericaLead8+ years experienceBackend

Specialty

Backend

The role

Coinbase is hiring a staff backend engineer to own the architecture of its Payments platform, which powers fiat on- and off-ramps. The role is remote in the US, with quarterly in-person sessions.

What you will do

  • Own technical strategy and architecture for the Payments platform
  • Build high-volume payment systems with clear SLOs
  • Set shared frameworks and coding standards
  • Lead scaling and reliability work
  • Mentor engineers

What they ask for

  • 8+ years in software engineering, including payment or financial systems
  • Track record architecting fault-tolerant distributed systems at scale
  • Experience owning production reliability and incident response

What they offer

  • Equity and bonus eligibility
  • Medical, dental and vision
  • 401(k)

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Coinbase's careers page behind the apply button.

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