Senior Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile

Overview

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile on the App Infra team within Coinbase's Consumer & Business group. Acts as technical architect for the migration from the React Native app to native Swift and Kotlin builds for millions of customers.

What you'll do

• Define the technical strategy for native app development at Coinbase.
• 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.
• Drive organizational readiness as a trusted cross-functional partner with product, design, and engineering leadership, resolving cross-team blockers, de-escalating conflict during the dual-app straddle period, and holding peer leaders to a high bar.
• Mentor L5-L6 engineers, develop the technical leadership pipeline for native mobile, and recruit actively through reputation.
• Become a leader across the mobile community at Coinbase, defining best practices and fostering connection and support between all mobile engineers.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in iOS or Android native mobile development (Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android) and strong working proficiency in the other platform, operating at depth across your own and adjacent team codebases.
• 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 other teams build against.
• 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 using all tools at your disposal.
• Experience designing AI-native engineering workflows adopted across teams, including LLM-driven code generation, agent-based automation, or reusable automation patterns that re-implement existing workflows.
• Uses generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable gains in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Details

• Remote-first, but not remote-only. Expect to get together quarterly for in-person working sessions called "surges."
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $253,895 – $298,700 USD.
• Total compensation may include equity, bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.