Position Details

Type Not Specified

Experience senior

Exp. Years 8+ years

Education Not specified

Category Software Engineering

About this role

Staff Backend Engineer to own the Payment Rails platform on Coinbase's Platform org. You will design APIs, orchestration layers, and multi-tenant infrastructure for global money movement, build fault-tolerant systems, and drive AI-powered tooling adoption across the team.

Key Responsibilities

Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Payment Rails
Build and scale distributed systems for high-volume payment traffic
Drive AI-first engineering workflows
Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations
Establish design patterns and mentorship to raise technical quality

Technical Overview

Role focuses on architectural strategy for payment rails, APIs, orchestration, distributed systems at scale, observability, SLOs, and AI-first workflow enhancements, with cross-functional collaboration across Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior staff backend engineer with 8+ years of experience in software engineering, proven success building payment rails or high-volume financial systems, and a track record designing fault-tolerant, highly reliable distributed architectures. They should bring an AI-first mindset, advanced observability practices, and the ability to mentor others while shaping cross-functional technical roadmaps.

Must-Have Skills

8+ years of experience in software engineeringExperience building payment systemsfinancial infrastructureor high-volume transactional systemsDesigned and built fault-toleranthighly reliable distributed systems at scalePlatform-builder mindsetStrong operational excellenceCollaborative leadershipDemonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience with payment processorsbanking integrationsor payment gatewaysBackground in crypto or blockchain technologiesExperience in highly regulated industries fintech or financial services

Tools & Platforms

LibreChatGeminiGlean

Required Skills

8+ years software engineering; experience building payment systems or high-volume transactional systems; fault-tolerant distributed systems; platform-building; operational excellence; collaborative leadership; ability to use generative AI tools

Hard Skills

APIsApplication Programming Interfacesdistributed systemsfault-toleranthigh-reliabilityobservabilityService Level ObjectivesSLOsmulti-tenant architectureorchestration layersAI-first engineeringgenerative AI toolsLibreChatGeminiGlean

Soft Skills

mentorshipleadershipcollaborationstakeholder managementcommunicationproblem solvingability to translate business requirements into technical solutions

Industry & Role

Industry Fintech

Job Function Lead architecture and platform engineering for Coinbase Payment Rails to enable fast, safe money movement at global scale

Role Subtype Backend Engineer

Tech Domains APIs, Distributed Systems, Observability, Multi-tenant Architecture, AI Tools

Keywords for Your Resume

Staff Software EngineerBackendPayment RailsAPIsApplication Programming Interfacesdistributed systemsfault-toleranthigh-reliabilityobservabilitySLOsTier-0Tier-1multi-tenantorchestration layersAI-first engineeringgenerative AI toolsLibreChatGeminiGleancross-functionalleadershipmentorshipproduction reliability

Deal Breakers

Less than 8 years of software engineering experience, No experience with payment systems or high-volume transactional infrastructure, Inability to work in a cross-functional, stakeholder-driven environment

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