Coinbase
Financial Services
SeniorStaffSoftwareEngineer,Payments
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“Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments at Coinbase. Skills: Payments platform, Money movement, Distributed systems, System architecture. Define technical strategy for Payments. Architect core Payments platform”
What You'll Achieve.
Increase economic freedom; Support new products; Support new geos; Support growth in payment volume; Achieve high availability; Achieve low latency; Achieve cost efficiency; Achieve global scale; Improve system design quality; Improve review rigor; Improve long-term maintainability; Improve reliability; Improve efficiency
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting; Data-driven decisions
Quarterly in-person sessions
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years building distributed systems, Deep money-movement architecture experience, Deep expertise in backend programming, Cloud-native architecture expertise, Proven track record designing highly available systems, Proven track record designing high-performance systems, Ability to anticipate scaling bottlenecks, Experience leading cross-functional initiatives, Experience mentoring senior engineers
Nice to Have
Experience designing ledgering systems, Experience operating ledgering systems, Experience designing trading systems, Experience operating trading systems, Financial acumen, Experience handling accounting data, Experience handling financial transactions, Experience collaborating with finance teams, Experience collaborating with accounting teams
What You'll Do.
Define technical strategy for Payments
Architect core Payments platform
Evolve core Payments platform
Lead design of initiatives
Lead rollout of initiatives
Break ambiguity into milestones
Break ambiguity into outcomes
Set technical standards
Enforce technical standards
Partner with Payments Risk
Partner with Regulatory Platform
Design cohesive architectures
Provide technical mentorship
Uplevel system design quality
Uplevel long-term maintainability
Use observability signals
Identify platform gaps
Lead reliability improvements
Lead efficiency improvements
Represent Payments in forums
Communicate tradeoffs
Align stakeholders on strategy
Secure buy-in for bets
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-team initiatives; Cross-functional technical initiatives; Cross-org forums
Communication Scope
Executive presentations; Clear communication
Process & Methodology
Milestones, Measurable outcomes
Full Job Description
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase. About the team: Payments Platform is at the front door of Coinbase’s financial ecosystem. Our mission is to move old money into crypto and power financial access and payments for the crypto economy globally. As the bridge between the traditional financial world and the crypto economy, we build and operate the fiat on- and off-ramps and payment services that let Coinbase’s customer-facing products deliver reliable, seamless payment processing and connect customer fiat funds into crypto. We’re seeking a deep technical leader to define the engineering vision for Payments, shape architectural cohesion across our global payment rails and funds-flow systems, drive platform-level reliability and cost efficiency, and lead the next evolution of how fiat moves into and out of Coinbase. What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties): Define and drive the multi‑quarter technical strategy for Payments, spanning rails, orchestration, and transfers, to support new products, geos, and significant growth in payment volume. Architect and evolve the core Payments platform (rails integrations, routing, and funds-flow services) for high availability, low latency, and cost efficiency at global scale. Lead end‑to‑end design and rollout of large, cross‑team initiatives (e.g., new global rails, decomp/migrations, resiliency programs), breaking high ambiguity into clear milestones and measurable outcomes. Set and e
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