The opportunity
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom.
What you'll do
Define the technical strategy to make the native app development future at Coinbase 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, unlocking the ability for 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, de-escalating conflict during the dual-app straddle period, and holding peer leaders to a high bar so their patterns spread across teams.
Mentor L5-L6 engineers, develop the technical leadership pipeline for native: mobile, and recruit actively through reputation, ensuring the team excels in your absence and your successor is developing.
Become a leader throughout the entire mobile community at Coinbase, defining: best practices and fostering connection and support between all mobile engineers.
What they're looking for
- + 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, 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.
