Software Engineer, Backend - Payments Platform

Coinbase is focused on increasing economic freedom and building the future of finance. The Software Engineer will build and operate backend services for fiat payment rails, routing, and funds-flow infrastructure, delivering secure and reliable systems for high-volume transactions.

Responsibilities:

• 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 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

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
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality