Software Engineer- Money Movement

Summary

Coinbase is a cryptocurrency and financial technology company focused on increasing economic freedom. The Money Movement team is seeking a Software Engineer to design and build secure, scalable backend systems and APIs for stablecoin-based payments, deposits, withdrawals, and transfers. The role owns projects end-to-end, partners with cross-functional teams, and improves the performance, reliability, and engineering quality of distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own key projects end-to-end as the Directly Responsible Individual, driving stablecoin-based money movement features from system design through production deployment with high accountability
• Build backend systems, infrastructure, and internal/external APIs that enable businesses and partners to embed stablecoin-powered payments into their products
• Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to translate requirements into robust, scalable solutions that balance speed, security, and regulatory needs
• Execute performance, scalability, and reliability improvements across distributed systems, identifying bottlenecks and driving fixes before they impact customers
• Support the team's engineering quality through code reviews, architectural best practices, and contributing to patterns that raise the technical bar

Skills

• 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend systems, ideally in fintech, payments, or crypto
• Proficiency in backend languages (e.g., Go, Java) and cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), with hands-on experience designing distributed systems and APIs
• Track record of serving as DRI for technical projects, driving end-to-end delivery from system design through production deployment
• Experience integrating with or building on blockchain or crypto technologies such as stablecoins, on-chain payments, or smart contract platforms (e.g., Ethereum, Solana, Base)
• Demonstrated ability to write technical design documents and communicate architecture trade-offs to product and engineering stakeholders
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend systems, ideally in fintech, payments, or crypto
• Proficiency in backend languages (e.g., Go, Java) and cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), with hands-on experience designing distributed systems and APIs
• Track record of serving as DRI for technical projects, driving end-to-end delivery from system design through production deployment
• Experience integrating with or building on blockchain or crypto technologies such as stablecoins, on-chain payments, or smart contract platforms (e.g., Ethereum, Solana, Base)
• Demonstrated ability to write technical design documents and communicate architecture trade-offs to product and engineering stakeholders
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Benefits

• Equity eligibility
• Bonus eligibility
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• 401(k)
• Remote-first work arrangement, with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges”