The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
What you'll do
Define and drive the multi-quarter technical strategy for Payments spanning: rails, orchestration, and transfers to support new products, geos, and significant growth in payment volume.
Architect and evolve the core Payments platform (rails integrations, routing,: and funds-flow services) for high availability, low latency, and cost efficiency at global scale.
Lead end-to-end design and rollout of large, cross-team initiatives (e.g.,: new global rails, decomp/migrations, resiliency programs), breaking ambiguity into clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
Set and enforce technical standards for financial correctness across: Payments, including idempotency, reconciliation, failure-mode handling, and auditability for all money-movement paths.
Partner with FinHub, Payments Risk, Regulatory Platform, and Product to: design cohesive architectures that balance customer experience, risk controls, compliance, and unit economics.
Provide deep technical mentorship to senior and staff engineers across: Payments pods, upleveling system design quality, review rigor, and long-term maintainability.
What they're looking for
- + years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production,: with deep expertise in backend programming (e.g., Go, Java, Python) and cloud-native architecture.
- Deep money-movement architecture experience including PSPs, ISO 20022,: routing, double-entry ledgering, and high-volume payment systems.
- Proven track record designing highly available, high-performance systems with: the ability to anticipate scaling bottlenecks and address them proactively.
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple: engineering teams and mentoring senior engineers in system design and long-term maintainability.
