Staff Frontend Software Engineer (Consumer - Advanced Trading)
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- As a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend on the Advanced Trading team within the Consumer & Business group, you’ll lead the front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced, our trading platform for experienced traders. You’ll own the performance, reliability, and scalability of our web and mobile trading clients, driving low-latency interfaces that serve traders across multiple instrument types
- This is a high-impact role at the intersection of crypto, trading infrastructure, and consumer product, where your technical leadership will shape both the platform and the engineering team building it
- 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
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in modern front-end frameworks (React, React Native, or equivalent) and mobile development environments
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
- Familiarity with high-availability, low-latency systems (trading platforms, financial systems, or real-time data applications preferred)
- Demonstrated success mentoring senior engineers and driving measurable improvements in team engineering standards and delivery velocity
- Experience leading technical strategy for a product area, including architecture decisions, trade-off analysis, and cross-team alignment for multi-quarter initiatives
- Proven track record optimizing complex UI systems for performance, including rendering optimization, network efficiency, and state management at scale