Software Engineer- Money Movement
What engineering roles in crypto pay
183 salaries · our own dataThis role pays $152k-$179k, below the $205k median for engineering roles in crypto on this board.
Join the Money Movement team within the Developer product group at Coinbase and help build the infrastructure powering the future of global payments. You'll design and build backend systems for stablecoin-based pay-ins, payouts, deposits, and withdrawals, enabling fast, secure, and scalable transfers that underpin how value moves across the Coinbase ecosystem and beyond.
What you'll do
- Own key projects end-to-end as the Directly Responsible Individual, driving stablecoin-based money movement features from system design through production deployment with high accountability.
- Build backend systems, infrastructure, and internal and external APIs that enable businesses and partners to embed stablecoin-powered payments into their products.
- Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to translate requirements into robust, scalable solutions that balance speed, security, and regulatory needs.
- Execute performance, scalability, and reliability improvements across distributed systems, identifying bottlenecks and driving fixes before they impact customers.
- Support the team's engineering quality through code reviews, architectural best practices, and contributing to patterns that raise the technical bar.
What you bring
- 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend systems, ideally in fintech, payments, or crypto.
- Proficiency in backend languages such as Go or Java, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP, with hands-on experience designing distributed systems and APIs.
- A track record of serving as DRI for technical projects, driving end-to-end delivery from system design through production deployment.
- Experience integrating with or building on blockchain or crypto technologies such as stablecoins, on-chain payments, or smart contract platforms including Ethereum, Solana, or Base.
- Demonstrated ability to write technical design documents and communicate architecture trade-offs to product and engineering stakeholders.
- Ability to utilise generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
What we offer
- Annual base salary of $152,405-$179,300 USD, varying by location.
- Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.
- Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
- Quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges".
About Coinbase
Coinbase is building the infrastructure to increase economic freedom. The company operates as a remote-first organization, bringing teams together quarterly for intensive working sessions.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Coinbase has 174 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 50 in Engineering, 26 in Legal & Compliance and 21 in Finance. 86% are fully remote, most of the rest in the US and Canada. 27 were posted in the last 7 days. The median advertised base salary is $202k, from 106 listings that publish pay.
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