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 high 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 closely 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/staff engineers across Payments: pods, upleveling system design quality, review rigor, and long‑term maintainability.
What they're looking for
- Use data and observability signals (e.g., success rates, latency, cost,: incident patterns) to identify structural platform gaps and lead systematic reliability and efficiency improvements.
- Represent Payments in executive and cross‑org forums, clearly communicating: tradeoffs, aligning stakeholders on strategy, and securing buy‑in for high‑impact technical bets.
- + years building and operating large‑scale distributed systems in production.
- Deep money‑movement architecture experience (PSPs, ISO 20022, routing,: double‑entry, high‑volume payment systems)
