Staff Software Engineer, Backend, Payments Platform

Coinbase

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Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$218,025–$256,500 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
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This role pays more than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $196,000–$260,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $237k versus about $228k for comparable roles.

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About Coinbase

Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology

Coinbase currently has 94 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $191,250–$218,900 across 85 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Backend, Payments Platform

The Staff Software Enginer, Backend - Payments Platform will join the Payments team within the Platform organization to own the architecture and technical direction of systems powering fiat on- and off-ramps for individual and institutional customers. This role involves owning the multi-year technical strategy for scaling integrations, routing, and funds-flow systems across global markets. You will build distributed systems designed for high-volume payment traffic, fault isolation, and observability while establishing paved roads and shared frameworks. Key responsibilities include leading high-stakes scaling initiatives, providing hands-on mentorship, and translating business requirements into technical solutions. Required expertise includes building financial infrastructure, high-volume transactional platforms, and multi-tenant architectures. You must demonstrate experience in production reliability, incident response, and utilizing generative AI responsibly to improve workflow efficiency and quality.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for the global Payments platform.
  • Build distributed systems to process high-volume payment traffic with fault isolation and clear SLOs.
  • Establish paved roads, shared frameworks, and coding standards to elevate engineering quality.
  • Translate ambiguous business requirements from Product, Risk, and Compliance into technical solutions.
  • Lead scaling and reliability initiatives by anticipating bottlenecks and driving improvements from incident postmortems.
  • Provide hands-on mentorship, design reviews, and architectural guidance to grow the engineering team.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Hands-on experience building payment systems, financial infrastructure, or high-volume transactional platforms.
  • Track record of architecting and delivering fault-tolerant, highly reliable distributed systems at scale.
  • Experience leading platform-building efforts to transform fragmented services into coherent, reusable systems.
  • Proven experience owning production reliability and leading high-severity incident response.
  • History of influencing technical direction across teams and organizations without direct authority.
  • Experience utilizing generative AI responsibly to deliver business-ready outputs and drive workflow improvements.

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