Senior Frontend Architect - Advanced Trading Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend on the Advanced Trading team. You will own the front-end strategy for Coinbase Advanced, delivering a low-latency, scalable trading experience across web and mobile, with responsibility for performance, reliability, and the user experience for professional traders.

This role combines crypto, trading infrastructure, and consumer product leadership, requiring mentoring of senior engineers and collaboration with product and engineering

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in modern front-end frameworks such as React/React Native and mobile development environments.
• Proven track record optimizing complex UI systems for performance, including rendering, network efficiency, and state management at scale.
• Experience leading technical strategy for a product area, including architecture decisions and cross-team alignment.
• Mentored senior engineers and driven improvements in engineering standards and delivery velocity.
• Familiarity with high-availability, low-latency systems (trading platforms, financial systems, or real-time data applications).

Responsibilities

• 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 and system design.
• Strengthen the engineering team through hands-on mentorship of senior engineers, elevating technical decision-making.
• 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.

Skills

React

React Native

Frontend architecture

Performance optimization

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend on the Advanced Trading team. You will own the front-end strategy for Coinbase Advanced, delivering a low-latency, scalable trading experience across web and mobile, with responsibility for performance, reliability, and the user experience for professional traders.

This role combines crypto, trading infrastructure, and consumer product leadership, requiring mentoring of senior engineers and collaboration with product and engineering