Senior Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile

Coinbase, Inc.; Springfield (IL); Remote; USD 254,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile, to lead the App Infra team during a major shift from React Native to native Swift and Kotlin for millions of users. You will own outcomes across ~30 product teams and set architectural patterns for a world-class mobile experience.

You will define strategy, drive AI-assisted migration, and build reusable patterns while mentoring senior engineers and collaborating with product and design leaders.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in iOS or Android native mobile development (Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android).
• Track record of owning outcomes spanning 2-3+ teams that drive business impact and migrations.
• Deep mobile performance expertise and setting architectural bar across teams.
• Proven influence at senior levels without direct authority.
• Experience designing AI-native engineering workflows and reusable automation patterns.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical strategy to make native app development future at Coinbase a reality.
• Lead the AI-assisted migration and reusable automation paradigms.
• Architect a paved-road native framework in Swift and Kotlin for cross-platform productivity.
• Drive organizational readiness with product, design, and engineering leadership.
• Mentor L5-L6 engineers and grow the leadership pipeline.
• Lead the mobile community and share best practices across Coinbase.

Skills

iOS Swift

Android Kotlin

Architectural leadership

AI-native workflows

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

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.

What you'll do:

• 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.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Uses generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable gains in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Job# P78586

*Pay Transparency Notice:** *Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$253,895—$298,700 USD

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