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About this role
Senior Backend Engineer leading Payment Rails infrastructure at Coinbase. Build and scale high-throughput, low-latency services, integrate with banking/payment networks, and collaborate across product, design, compliance, and finance.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable payment rail services
- Own end-to-end backend components
- Partner with Product/Design/Compliance/Finance
- Mentor teammates
- Contribute to architecture reviews
Technical Overview
Backend focus with Go; distributed systems, APIs, and relational databases. Emphasis on production readiness, monitoring, and incident response, plus potential integration with crypto/payments and on-chain flows.
Ideal Candidate
An experienced backend engineer with 7+ years in software engineering and 2+ years in management, proficient in Go, distributed systems, and high-availability services. Comfortable building production-grade, low-latency systems for financial products and collaborating across product, design, compliance, and finance.
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Deal Breakers
Not willing to work on remote-first environment with occasional in-person requirements, Lacking 7+ years of software engineering or 2+ years of management experience
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