9 hours ago
Base Salary
$186k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend payment services using Go.
- Own payment features end to end from technical design through production deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Build platform primitives, extension points, and self-serve APIs for adding payment methods and rails.
- Translate product vision and business requirements into quarterly technical plans with cross-functional partners.
- Improve reliability, observability, and performance across payment services.
- Contribute through code reviews, design discussions, and advocacy for service-oriented architecture best practices.
- Use generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining production services in service-oriented or microservices architectures.
- Proficiency in Go or similar backend languages and experience designing scalable, low-latency APIs and distributed systems.
- Experience owning features from design through deployment and production support.
- Experience with financial systems, payments infrastructure, or high-volume transactional systems requiring precision and auditability.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k).
- Potential equity and bonus eligibility in addition to base salary.
About Coinbase
Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.