Coinbase

Financial Services

SeniorStaffSoftwareEngineer,Payments

$350–550k ~AI est. United States Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“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.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting; Data-driven decisions

Eligibility Requirements

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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