Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Payments Platform

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for payment processing using Go, ensuring high reliability and correctness for financial transactions at scale
• Own end-to-end delivery of payment features, from technical design through production deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Build the platform primitives, extension points, and self-serve APIs that let other Coinbase teams add new payment methods and rails without deep changes to the core services
• Partner with engineers, product managers, and senior leadership to translate product vision and business requirements into technical plans each quarter
• Drive improvements to system reliability, observability, and performance across payment services, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks
• Contribute to engineering quality through thoughtful code reviews, design discussions, and advocacy for best practices in service-oriented architecture

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