Staff Software Engineer, Native MobilePosted today$46K–$183K

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

  • Own end-to-end architecture and delivery of core native app surfaces in Swift: and Kotlin, operating at depth across the team's codebases and establishing the constrained architecture and compile-time boundaries that enforce strict quality standards.

  • Lead the agentic code translation workflow, implementing high-quality: automated systems for the team's recurring migration work before asking for headcount, and setting what gets automated versus what stays human across the translation pipeline.

  • Own developer experience for the native codebase, accelerating every engineer: who onboards by improving build speeds, local development workflows, and CI/CD reliability, and by defining the architectural patterns and documentation that make native mobile development at Coinbase a world-class experience.

  • Shape the dual-app agentic synchronization strategy during the transition,: prioritizing the highest-impact outcomes and designing the daily agent automations and human review processes that keep native and React Native codebases in sync.

  • Become a leader throughout the entire mobile community at Coinbase, defining: best practices, mentoring L3-L5 mobile engineers across all teams, and fostering connection and support between all mobile engineers.

  • + 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, as engineers on this team own both iOS and Android.

What they're looking for

  • 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.