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Salary: USD 218,025 - 286,500 / annual
Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Mobile QA to lead the App Infra team's quality strategy for the greenfield native rewrite of its retail mobile app in Swift and Kotlin. This is a high-impact role where you'll set Coinbase's frontend quality bar and translate org-level strategy into the test infrastructure and operational practices that approximately 30 product teams depend on.
You will own the technical strategy for mobile QA infrastructure across the native rewrite, operating at depth across the team's codebases and designing operational practices that lower maintenance and operational overhead while raising release quality. You'll build and scale automated test systems for recurring regression testing, making deliberate decisions about what gets automated versus what stays human across regression, performance validation, and release readiness gating. You'll lead the QA readiness workstream for the phased rollout, driving clarity across success metrics, resourcing, and operations.
Your responsibilities include guiding when to invest more testing resources and when to pull back as quality gains diminish, partnering cross-functionally with engineering leadership, product, and design to define SLOs and quality dashboards that provide metric-driven controls for rollout speed decisions. You'll shape the QA onboarding playbook for product teams transitioning to native, set the team's hiring bar for QA contributors, and mentor L3-L5 engineers on test architecture, native debugging, and quality standards.
Coinbase is a remote-first but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called "surges." The company is uncompromising on its mission to increase economic freedom, with a high bar and intense environment.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in mobile test infrastructure, including architecting automated regression systems for native iOS and Android at scale
- Track record of defining and delivering test infrastructure strategy that other engineering teams depend on
- Strong proficiency in Swift and Kotlin with the ability to architect test frameworks, debug native app behavior, and enforce compile-time quality constraints, maintaining standards even under pressure to ship
- Experience operating QA processes during large-scale migrations or platform transitions, including managing dual-codebase parity validation, phased rollout quality gates, and leading SEVs and postmortems that improve team practices
- Demonstrated ability to build alignment and secure commitment from cross-team and cross-functional partners on quality standards, testing strategy, and release criteria
- Responsible use of generative AI, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable gains in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
