Senior Software Engineer, CDP - Money Movement

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. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase. Join the Money Movement team within the Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) and help build the infrastructure powering the future of global payments. CDP brings together payments, trading, wallets, and stablecoins through a single onboarding flow and self-service APIs. You'll design and build the core backend systems for stablecoin-based pay-ins, payouts, deposits, and withdrawals, enabling fast, secure, and scalable transfers across borders and platforms that underpin how value moves across the Coinbase ecosystem and beyond. What you'll do: Design, build, and maintain backend systems and infrastructure that power stablecoin-based money movement, including pay-ins, payouts, deposits, and withdrawals. Own key projects end-to-end as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI), driving them from design through production with high accountability. Build internal and external APIs that enable businesses and partners to embed stablecoin-powered payments into their products. Partner with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to deliver robust, scalable solutions. Identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability challenges across distributed systems. Mentor engineers on architectural best practices and contribute to raising the technical bar across the team. Required Skills and Experience: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating large-scale backend systems, ideally in fintech, payments, or crypto. Proficiency in backend languages (e.g., Go, Java, or similar) and cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS , GCP), with hands-on experience designing distributed systems and APIs. Track record of serving as DRI for complex technical projects, driving end-to-end delivery from system design through production deployment.