Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Platform - Payments Platform)

Coinbase Careers Page

224d • $218,025 - $256,500

About The Position

At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Payments team at Coinbase. Our team is diligently crafting innovative payment solutions aimed at empowering both individual consumers and large-scale institutions within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. We are developing state-of-the-art payment infrastructures, workflows and APIs, to facilitate the seamless transition of traditional currency into the crypto landscape, thereby enhancing financial access. Our payment solutions are designed with a focus on simplicity and scalability, aiming to drive widespread adoption of crypto-centric products such as Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Decentralized Applications (DApps), and cryptocurrency exchanges.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience in uplevelling junior engineers via processes and setting a high bar for them to follow
• You know what high quality code — and software engineering processes — look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
• Experience of building large distributed systems
• Experience of building simple, scalable and fault tolerant APIs

Nice To Haves

• You’ve worked with Golang, gRPC, Docker, Kafka, AWS cloud, SnowFlake, Databricks
• Experience in Financial domain
• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop payments platform for processing billions of $s of payments across the globe
• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
• Hands-on with coding
• Plan and Implement the multi-year strategy for Payments engineering with the technical leadership on your team
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
• Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction
• Engage with upstream teams and enforce SLAs for data availability and quality

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Target bonus
• Target equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees