Senior Staff Software Engineer (Native Mobile)
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- We’re hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile to join the App Infra team within the Consumer & Business group as a technical architect for Coinbase’s native mobile future
- This is the most significant client platform shift in the company’s history, replacing the React Native app with native Swift and Kotlin builds for millions of customers
- Coinbase mobile engineers will be expected to support both iOS and Android on their teams using AI-driven agentic translation at unprecedented scale
- You’ll own outcomes spanning the App Infra team and our ~30 product teams, set our architectural patterns, and relentlessly drive Coinbase towards a novel, world-class mobile development experience
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Uses generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable gains in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
- 12+ 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