Senior Frontend Engineer, Crypto Payments & Performance

Coinbase; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 186,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Frontend to join the Consumer Payments team. You will own frontend experiences across web and mobile, delivering fast, reliable payment flows while mentoring junior engineers and reducing customer friction at scale.

You will work with product, design, and backend teams to ship high-impact features, optimize latency, and improve overall user experience for millions of crypto transactions.

Qualifications

• 5 years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in React and React Native.
• Proven track record of shipping consumer-facing products end-to-end in a high-scale environment, with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Experience owning SLOs and driving measurable improvements in latency and availability for user-facing flows.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers and operate as a senior technical voice on a team of mixed levels.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto money movement experiences, including send, receive, and transaction status tracking across web and mobile
• Drive measurable improvements in CUJ latency, availability, and SLOs for the payment flows you own
• Build new user-facing features – such as contact management systems and real-time transaction status trackers
• Partner with product, design, and backend engineering to scope, prioritize, and ship projects that reduce CX contact rates and improve the customer experience
• Identify and resolve frontend performance bottlenecks across payment flows, reducing end-to-end latency and improving reliability for millions of users

Skills

React

React Native

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Frontend to join the Consumer Payments team. You will own frontend experiences across web and mobile, delivering fast, reliable payment flows while mentoring junior engineers and reducing customer friction at scale.

You will work with product, design, and backend teams to ship high-impact features, optimize latency, and improve overall user experience for millions of crypto transactions.