Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Consumer - Advanced Trading)

Overview

Lead the front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced, the trading platform for experienced traders, owning the performance, reliability and scalability of its web and mobile clients.

What you'll do

• Own the front-end technical roadmap for Coinbase Advanced, defining architecture decisions that enable a reliable, scalable trading platform across web and mobile.
• Drive measurable performance improvements across rendering, network efficiency, and state management to deliver a low-latency trading experience.
• Lead complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives end-to-end, setting and enforcing high standards for code quality, system design, and engineering rigor.
• Strengthen the engineering team through hands-on mentorship of senior engineers, elevating technical decision-making and fostering growth across the subteam.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate business priorities into actionable technical plans and ship high-impact features.
• Shape front-end engineering practices and patterns that scale with a growing team, establishing conventions that accelerate development velocity.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of iOS or Android mobile software engineering experience (Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android), with working proficiency in the other platform.
• Willingness to develop cross-platform fluency, as engineers on this team own both iOS and Android.
• Proven track record optimizing complex UI systems for performance, including rendering optimization, network efficiency, and state management at scale.
• Experience leading technical strategy for a product area, including architecture decisions, trade-off analysis, and cross-team alignment for multi-quarter initiatives.
• Demonstrated success mentoring senior engineers and driving measurable improvements in team engineering standards and delivery velocity.
• Familiarity with high-availability, low-latency systems.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Nice to have

• Trading platforms, financial systems, or real-time data application experience.

Details

• Remote-first, but not remote-only; quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges".
• Annual base salary range (excluding bonus): $218,025 to $256,500 USD.
• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.