Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments

Coinbase
Canada
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 253,895 - 298,700 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentorship","Systems thinking","Stakeholder alignment","Proactive problem-solving"]

Lead the engineering vision for Coinbase’s Payments platform, defining multi-quarter technical strategy across global rails, orchestration, and transfers. Architect high-availability, low-latency, cost-efficient payments services and drive large cross-team initiatives for resiliency, migrations, and new rails. Set standards for financial correctness (idempotency, reconciliation, failure handling, auditability), mentor senior engineers, and use observability data to improve reliability and efficiency at global scale.

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Coinbase
Coinbase
2 months ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments

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Job Summary

Lead the engineering vision for Coinbase’s Payments platform, defining multi-quarter technical strategy across global rails, orchestration, and transfers. Architect high-availability, low-latency, cost-efficient payments services and drive large cross-team initiatives for resiliency, migrations, and new rails. Set standards for financial correctness (idempotency, reconciliation, failure handling, auditability), mentor senior engineers, and use observability data to improve reliability and efficiency at global scale.
Location: Canada
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for Payments across rails, orchestration, and transfers.
  • •Architect and evolve Payments platform services for high availability, low latency, and global-scale cost efficiency.
  • •Lead end-to-end design and rollout of large cross-team initiatives, including new rails, decomp/migrations, and resiliency programs.
  • •Set and enforce technical standards for financial correctness across all money-movement paths.
  • •Partner with FinHub, Payments Risk, Regulatory Platform, and Product to balance customer experience, risk controls, compliance, and unit economics.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 253,895 - 298,700 annually
Perks:MedicalDentalVision

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
  • •Deep money-movement architecture experience, including PSPs, ISO 20022, routing, double-entry, and high-volume payment systems.
  • •Expertise in backend programming (Python, Go, Java) and cloud-native architecture.
  • •Proven ability to design highly available, high-performance systems.
  • •Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and mentoring senior engineers.
Experience:10+ yearsDistributed systemsPaymentsFintechCloud-nativeCrypto
Skills:Technical leadershipMentorshipSystems thinkingStakeholder alignmentProactive problem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonGoJavaISO 20022PSPsCloud-native

Company Brief

Coinbase
Operates a cryptocurrency exchange and financial services platform that enables buying, selling, storing, and earning crypto assets, institutional trading, custody, and developer tools for blockchain applications.
Industry: Trading Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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