Senior Frontend Software Engineer (Platform, Identity)
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- As a Senior Software Engineer, Frontend on the Identity Horizontal team within the Platform group, you’ll own the user-facing experiences for login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-factor authentication that every Coinbase customer touches first
- This team builds and maintains the frontend surfaces that establish the right level of assurance for every identity, enabling products to ship faster while blocking attackers and satisfying regulators
- You’ll lead end-to-end frontend delivery across authentication surfaces, drive the Native vs. Webview architecture strategy, and mentor engineers as the team scales
- Lead end-to-end frontend projects from design doc through implementation, deployment, and monitoring for login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-user/multi-organization support
- Author and review technical design documents, breaking down ambiguous, complex initiatives into executable plans for the team
- Drive Identity’s Native vs. Webview architecture strategy for authentication surfaces, evaluating trade-offs across latency, reliability, and user experience
- Identify and resolve technical debt and code quality issues proactively across the team’s codebase, not just your own scope
- Lead team rituals including on-call, code review, and incident response, and mentor L04 engineers on frontend craft and ownership
- Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve systemic technical debt across a team’s codebase, with measurable improvements to reliability or developer velocity
- Authored and driven technical design documents through cross-functional review and implementation on at least 2-3 major initiatives
- 5+ years of production frontend engineering experience with React and TypeScript, including independently leading end-to-end delivery of ambiguous, complex projects
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading team rituals (on-call rotations, code review standards, incident response)