Coinbase
Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile
Remote - USA · Staff+
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About the role
- Ready to do the most impactful work of your career?
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of core native app surfaces in Swift and Kotlin, making the structural decisions that product teams build on as they onboard to native.
- Lead the agentic code translation workflow, implementing high-quality automated systems for the team's recurring migration work before asking for headcount, and setting what gets automated versus what stays human across the translation pipeline.
- Own developer experience for the native codebase, accelerating every engineer who onboards by improving build speeds, local development workflows, and CI/CD reliability, and by defining the architectural patterns and documentation that make native mobile development at Coinbase a world-class experience.
- Become a leader throughout the entire mobile community at Coinbase, defining best practices, mentoring L3-L5 mobile engineers across all teams, and fostering connection and support between all mobile engineers.
- Demonstrated ability to translate org strategy into team-level technical execution, build alignment across cross-team and cross-functional partners, and secure commitment on migration timelines and quality standards.
- Experience improving developer experience through build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and release tooling, with improvements adopted beyond your immediate team.
- Uses generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable gains in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
- If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here.
- We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile to join the App Infra team within the Consumer & Business group and help lead Coinbase's greenfield native mobile app rewrite.
Requirements
- Experience with AI-assisted code generation or LLM-driven development workflows, with demonstrated judgment on what to automate and what requires human review.
- Required Skills and Experience:
Compensation
- $218,025 - $256,500 USD
- Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below).
- Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
Company info
- you'll bring deep iOS or Android expertise to set the technical bar, own quality outcomes, and translate org strategy into the team's technical execution as product teams onboard to native.
- At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
- This team is replacing the existing React Native app with native Swift and Kotlin builds, using AI-driven agentic workflows to translate and rebuild every core surface for millions of customers.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Accommodations: If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation, email us your request and contact info at accommodations[at]coinbase.com.
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