At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform , and with it, the future global financial system.

To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system.

We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high-calibre colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep levelling up.

We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be.

While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Payment Rails team within Coinbase's Platform organisation.

Payment Rails serves as Coinbase’s gateway between the fiat and crypto economy, connecting our products to a wide range of banking and payment providers, from the largest global institutions to the most innovative, tech-forward processors.

We operate a network of payment integrations and routing that power fiat on- and off-ramps for both individual and institutional customers, moving hundreds of billions of dollars in transaction volume each year.

In this role, you’ll shape the architecture and technical direction of this network, designing and scaling systems that ensure every payment is reliable, efficient, and correct.

**Key Responsibilities:*

• Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for scaling Payment Rails’ network of payment partner integrations and routing, so Coinbase can enable more customers to participate in the crypto economy across more markets and payment options.

• Build and scale complex distributed systems that process high-volume, high-reliability payment traffic,designing for fault isolation, graceful degradation, strong observability, and clear SLOs for Tier-0/Tier-1 services.

• Drive an AI-first approach to engineering workflows,identify where AI-powered tools can accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance operational efficiency across the team and broader engineering org.

• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to translate ambiguous business requirements into well-scoped technical solutions that balance speed, safety, and regulatory requirements.

• Lead high-stakes scaling initiatives and define the technical direction for how Coinbase moves money,anticipating bottlenecks before they occur and driving proactive, systematic improvements.

• Raise the engineering bar across Payment Rails and adjacent orgs by establishing paved roads, design patterns, and best practices that elevate team technical quality through mentorship, design reviews, and process improvements.

• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards.

**Requirements:*

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.

• Experience building payment systems, financial infrastructure, or high-volume transactional systems.

• You’ve designed and built fault-tolerant, highly reliable distributed systems at scale,with a demonstrable track record of architecting systems that handle billions of dollars in transaction volume.

• Platform-builder mindset: you’ve led efforts to turn fragmented services and bespoke integrations into coherent, reusable platforms (e.g., shared frameworks, unified APIs, multi-tenant architectures).

• Strong operational excellence: experience owning production reliability, leading high-severity incident response, and driving systemic improvements from postmortems across multiple teams or domains.

• Collaborative leadership: history of influencing across teams and organisations without direct authority, driving consensus on high-impact technical decisions, and representing your area in org-level forums.

• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.

**Nice to have:*

• Experience with payment processors, banking integrations, or payment gateways (e.g., Stripe, Plaid, SWIFT, ACH, SEPA, card networks).

• Background in crypto or blockchain technologies, including familiarity with stablecoin transfers, on-chain settlements, or cross-chain payment flows.

• Experience working in highly regulated industries where safety, compliance, and user trust are paramount,particularly in fintech or financial services.

Pay Transparency Notice:

Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $218,025-$256,500 USD

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Key responsibilities include:

• Architecture and design of distributed protocols with an emphasis on security, performance, and scalability
• Writing, deploying, and testing smart contracts and maintaining them in production
• Developing and owning best practices for protocol upgrades and versioning across different networks
• Collaborating with engineering, product, and design on the user-facing applications built around our smart contract protocols
• Mentoring other engineers in in-depth Solidity/EVM topics and best practices

We're looking for someone with 6+ years of relevant industry experience, 2+ years of smart contract development, and extreme proficiency with Solidity and the EVM. Experience designing distributed protocols, building and managing high traffic smart contracts, and working with startups is a plus.

Alchemy offers competitive compensation, including base salary as well as equity, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, and unlimited flexible time off. The base salary range for this position is estimated to be between $135,000 - $350,000 annually.

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This role blends hands-on software development, technical consulting, and customer success: ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of technology and mission-driven impact.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deploy full-stack solutions for state governments and public sector partners.
• Collaborate with customer delivery leads, engineers, and UX designers to ensure successful deployments.
• Translate customer requirements into technical architectures and production-ready systems.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor for partners adopting open identity standards and privacy best practices.
• Build backend services and full-stack web or mobile apps that meet public sector security, privacy, and accessibility standards.
• Contribute to Rust codebases that run across backend, mobile, and browser environments.
• Manage customer deployments and provide post-launch technical support.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience building backend systems in statically typed languages (Rust, Go, C#, or Java).
• Strong background in modern web frontends (React, TypeScript, or similar) with an eye for accessibility and security.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional engineering efforts and deliver production-grade systems.
• Strong appreciation for open-source software, standards-based design, and community-driven development.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working directly with customers or stakeholders.
• Based in the U.S., excited to collaborate with state government partners.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with digital identity, cryptography, data privacy, or blockchain technologies (e.g., Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, OAuth, OpenID Connect).
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, GraphQL, or RESTful API design and development.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation using Terraform, or similar tools.
• Exposure to mobile app development (React Native, Flutter, or similar frameworks).
• Experience in security engineering, access control, federated identity, or PKI systems.
• Prior work in public sector, government technology, or other high-compliance environments.
• Interest in usability, accessibility (WCAG, Section 508), and inclusive product design.
• Contributions to open-source projects or participation in digital identity standards bodies (W3C, DIF, IETF) is a plus.

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As a Backend Engineer, you'll focus on data extraction from various crypto platforms, data normalization, and optimizing data accessibility for portfolio management, smart contract vesting, and counterparty exposure.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain APIs to extract crypto asset data from counterparties and block explorers.
• Ensure high reliability, performance, and security across all data pipelines.
• Utilize no-code tools like Retool to build internal dashboards and data interfaces.

Data Management and Normalization:

• Normalize raw data to ensure accuracy and consistency across systems.
• Implement scalable data storage and retrieval solutions.

Query and Reporting Optimization:

• Write and optimize complex SQL and NoSQL queries to support robust reporting.
• Ensure data is easily queryable for portfolio insights and operations analysis.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Partner with teams across asset operations, finance, and investments to understand data needs.
• Build dashboards and reports that provide visibility into smart contract vesting schedules, counterparty exposures, and portfolio positions.

Documentation and Compliance:

• Maintain clear documentation for APIs, data models, and reporting tools.
• Ensure compliance with data protection and processing standards.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in backend engineering roles. Strong expertise in SQL and relational databases.
• Proven experience designing and managing APIs. Familiarity with blockchain technologies, smart contracts, and decentralized finance.
• Ability to build backend-powered data visualizations and reporting interfaces.
• Resourceful and solutions-oriented; comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Passion for cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Google Cloud (BigTable) or AWS.
• Prior work in the crypto/blockchain industry.

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The successful candidate will dive headfirst into the world of crypto data, exploring on-chain wallets and contracts, block and transaction data, insights from in-house systems, and third-party intelligence. Your mission will be to combine these diverse datasets into rich, actionable data products for a broad group of stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include: Leveraging and expanding our ever-growing Kimball dimensional model. Writing SQL to create and expand insights in our in-house reporting solutions. Collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to conduct ad-hoc explorations and analytics. Being a key owner of data quality, building out insights that serve the data team itself. Composing pipelines by writing SQL code to clean, combine, refine, and aggregate data into the insights the organization needs. Collaborating on new datasets to ingest into our Snowflake data warehouse, working closely with data engineers on your team. Not afraid of pushing code that supports tens of billions of dollars in daily transaction volume.

We are looking for someone with previous data analyst experience, likely with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics or related field, but we also consider and highly value equivalent practical experience.

Required skills include strong SQL knowledge and experience, proven track record in data modeling, statistics, and analytics, experience working with a broad range of stakeholders, and strong convictions weakly held. Nice to have skills include experience with general programming, experience with Snowflake, experience building DAG-based data pipelines, experience with streaming real-time data pipelines, previous experience with blockchain technologies, smart contracts, and decentralized finance, experience with Kimball dimensional modeling, and working on a mid-to-large scale data stacks.

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