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Salary: USD 218,025 - 256,500 / annual
Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile to join the App Infra team within the Consumer & Business group. You will lead Coinbase's greenfield native mobile app rewrite, replacing the existing React Native app with native Swift and Kotlin builds. This is a high-impact technical leadership role where your direction will shape how the team operates and executes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end architecture and delivery of core native app surfaces in Swift and Kotlin, establishing constrained architecture and compile-time boundaries that enforce strict quality standards across the team's codebases.
- Lead the agentic code translation workflow, implementing high-quality automated systems for the team's recurring migration work and determining what gets automated versus what requires human review.
- Own developer experience for the native codebase by improving build speeds, local development workflows, CI/CD reliability, and defining architectural patterns and documentation that make native mobile development at Coinbase world-class.
- Shape the dual-app agentic synchronization strategy during the transition, prioritizing high-impact outcomes and designing daily agent automations and human review processes that keep native and React Native codebases in sync.
- Become a leader throughout Coinbase's entire mobile community, defining best practices, mentoring L3-L5 mobile engineers across all teams, and fostering connection and support between mobile engineers.
Coinbase is a remote-first but not remote-only company. Expect quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges." The environment is intense and high-bar; this is a place for people who refuse to settle for "good enough."
Requirements:
- 8+ years of iOS or Android mobile software engineering experience (Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android), with working proficiency in the other platform and willingness to develop cross-platform fluency.
- Track record of shipping high-quality mobile applications at scale with ownership of architecture decisions, performance budgets, and release quality, with outcomes that would not have happened without your direct involvement.
- Deep understanding of mobile performance optimization, including cold start, frame stability, scroll jank, and time to interaction, with experience profiling and tuning across device tiers including low-end Android.
- 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 with AI-assisted code generation or LLM-driven development workflows, with demonstrated judgment on what to automate and what requires human review.
- 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.
