Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Payments Platform)

Join Coinbase as a Senior Software Engineer on the Payments team. You'll design and build scalable backend systems for payment processing, own end-to-end delivery of payment features, and drive improvements to system reliability and performance. You'll work closely with product managers, engineers, and senior leadership to translate product vision into technical plans. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, proficiency in Go or similar languages, and experience with financial systems or high-volume transactional systems.

Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for payment processing using Go, ensuring high reliability and correctness for financial transactions at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of payment features, from technical design through production deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Drive improvements to system reliability, observability, and performance across payment services, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks.
• Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages, with experience designing scalable, low-latency APIs and distributed systems

Requirements

• 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
• Track record of owning features end-to-end, from design through deployment and production support, in a fast-moving environment
• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with hands-on experience building and maintaining production services in a service-oriented or microservices architecture

Pay

USD 186,065 - 218,900