# Staff Software Enginer, Backend - Payments Platform at Coinbase

- Company: Coinbase
- What the company does: Backed by Battery, Greylock and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.coinbase.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - USA
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-10-19
- Apply by: 2026-12-03
- Apply: https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/8302189?gh_jid=8302189&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/coinbase-staff-software-enginer-backend-payments-platform/

## About the role

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including hands-on experience building payment systems, financial infrastructure, or high-volume transactional platforms
- Demonstrated track record of architecting and delivering fault-tolerant, highly reliable distributed systems at scale, with experience processing billions of dollars in transaction volume
- Led platform-building efforts that transformed fragmented services into coherent, reusable systems (e.g., shared frameworks, unified APIs, multi-tenant architectures)
- Proven experience owning production reliability, leading high-severity incident response, and driving systemic improvements across multiple teams or domains
- History of influencing technical direction across teams and organizations without direct authority, including representing your area in org-level architecture and strategy forums
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Tags: Engineering - Backend

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