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Salary: USD 253,895 - 298,700 / annual
Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile to join the App Infra team within the Consumer & Business group. This role is a technical architect position for Coinbase's native mobile platform transformation—replacing the React Native app with native Swift and Kotlin builds serving millions of customers.
You will own outcomes spanning the App Infra team and approximately 30 product teams, setting architectural patterns and driving Coinbase toward a world-class mobile development experience. This is the most significant client platform shift in the company's history.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define technical strategy for native app development at Coinbase, making the transition a reality
- Lead the AI-assisted migration approach, designing reusable AI-automation paradigms such as agent swarms, automated dual-repo synchronization, and continuous improvement of translation efficiency using automated feedback loops
- Architect a paved-road native framework in Swift and Kotlin that sets the architectural bar across teams, enabling a single mobile contributor to be productive in both iOS and Android codebases simultaneously
- Drive organizational readiness as a trusted cross-functional partner with product, design, and engineering leadership, resolving cross-team blockers and de-escalating conflict during the dual-app straddle period
- Mentor L5-L6 engineers, develop the technical leadership pipeline for native mobile, and recruit actively through reputation
- Become a leader throughout the entire mobile community at Coinbase, defining best practices and fostering connection and support between all mobile engineers
Coinbase is a remote-first (but not remote-only) company. Expect quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges."
REQUIREMENTS:
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in iOS or Android native mobile development (Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android) and strong working proficiency in the other platform
- Track record of owning outcomes spanning 2-3+ teams that drive business impact, including multi-phase platform migrations or rewrites at scale where you shaped strategy and made trade-offs that raised ROI across teams
- Deep mobile performance expertise across iOS and Android, including cold start optimization, frame stability, scroll jank elimination, and device-tier profiling, with experience setting the architectural bar and defining ownership boundaries
- Proven influence without authority at senior levels, with experience changing the technical direction of teams outside your own, securing leadership alignment on ambiguous high-stakes decisions, and resolving cross-team blockers
- Experience designing AI-native engineering workflows adopted across teams, including LLM-driven code generation, agent-based automation, or reusable automation patterns
- Uses generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable gains in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
