Senior Software Engineer, Developer (Payments)

Coinbase is a company on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world through blockchain technology. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and ship core APIs and backend services that power global payments, while leading cross-functional projects and ensuring high-quality delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and ship the core APIs and backend services that power global payments for CDP customers
• Owning end-to-end delivery of high-impact features — think integrating new payment rails (Onchain Payments, ACH, Wire), building stablecoin bank account infrastructure, and designing cross-border payment flows that convert fiat to stablecoins and back in seconds
• Lead cross-functional projects with Money Movement, CDP Foundations and various Platform teams, and your code will handle real money flowing through production systems used by some of the largest financial institutions in the world

Requirements:

• You have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering
• You are customer-obsessed, and love shipping products that delight customers
• You highly value continuous improvement, resourcefulness, and hold a high bar for yourself and those around you
• Scrappy self-starter mindset with willingness to push through friction to improve customer UX
• Strong engineering skills; you can build reliable backend services that handle real-world edge cases
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven patterns; you design and integrate cleanly with internal and third-party services
• You write high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with designers and product managers
• Passion for great developer tooling and opinions on what makes developer platforms excellent
• Passion for onchain/Web3 and understanding of blockchain technologies, particularly Ethereum and other EVM-compatible chains
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human‑in‑the‑loop practices to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality
• You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from startup to mid-size)
• You have experience building on top of Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
• You have experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices
• You've built financial, high reliability or security systems