Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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Senior backend engineer building Coinbase One’s subscription lifecycle, payments, and benefits platform. Improving scalable services that drive subscriber growth and retention for millions of Coinbase customers.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the design, development, and operation of backend services powering the Coinbase One membership lifecycle, including sign-up flows, subscription management, and recurring payment processing
  • Build scalable platform capabilities for targeted benefit delivery, promotional incentives, and personalized membership experiences
  • Partner with frontend, product, design, and payments teams to scope, ship, and iterate on customer-facing membership features
  • Drive backend architecture decisions for the Coinbase One product area
  • Establish patterns for reliability, extensibility, and integration with broader Coinbase platform services
  • Improve service reliability, observability, and performance across the backend stack
  • Proactively identify and resolve production issues

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
  • Track record of shipping and operating production services at scale
  • Experience building subscription, payments, or commerce systems, including recurring billing, entitlements, or promotional logic
  • Proficiency in Go or a similar backend systems language (Java, C++, Rust), with ability to adapt to a Go-centric codebase
  • Ability to design and maintain APIs and distributed systems integrating across web and mobile product surfaces
  • Experience taking ambiguous projects from scoping through production with minimal oversight
  • Cross-functional collaboration with product and design partners
  • Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight
  • Must be based in the USA

Benefits:

  • Equity eligibility
  • Bonus eligibility
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Quarterly in-person working sessions (“surges”)