Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments

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Responsibilities

• ▹Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for rails, orchestration, and transfers
• ▹Architect and evolve the core Payments platform (rails integrations, routing, funds-flow services)
• ▹Lead end-to-end design and rollout of large, cross-team initiatives such as new global rails or decomp/migrations
• ▹Set and enforce technical standards for financial correctness (idempotency, reconciliation, failure-mode handling, auditability)
• ▹Partner closely with FinHub, Payments Risk, Regulatory Platform, and Product
• ▹Provide deep technical mentorship to senior/staff engineers

Requirements

• ▹10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
• ▹Deep money-movement architecture experience (PSPs, ISO 20022, routing, double-entry, high-volume payment systems)
• ▹Deep expertise in backend programming (e.g. Python, Go, Java) and cloud-native architecture
• ▹Proven track record designing highly available, high-performance systems
• ▹Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and mentoring senior engineers

Nice to have

• ▹Experience designing and operating ledgering or trading systems at large scale
• ▹Strong financial acumen with high-precision accounting data and transactions
• ▹Experience collaborating closely with finance and accounting teams

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits
• ▹Quarterly in-person team gatherings ('surges')
• ▹Equity and bonus eligibility

About the company

Coinbase's mission is to increase economic freedom. It is a remote-first, but not remote-only company, with quarterly in-person team gatherings.