Staff Mobile Engineer, Native iOS/Android Architect

Coinbase, Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile to lead the App Infra team and rewrite the native mobile app in Swift and Kotlin. You will own architecture, drive performance, and enable AI-assisted translation workflows at scale across iOS and Android.

You will mentor engineers, improve build times, and shape the synchronization strategy between native and React Native during the transition, influencing the broader mobile community at Coinbase.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of iOS or Android mobile software engineering experience.
• Track record of shipping mobile apps at scale with architecture ownership.
• Deep understanding of mobile performance optimization.
• Ability to translate org strategy into team execution.
• Experience with AI-assisted code generation or LLM-driven workflows.
• Experience improving developer experience via build systems and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of core native app surfaces in Swift and Kotlin, defining module boundaries and rules for a scalable codebase.
• Stay hands-on across the team's codebases, writing and reviewing code with depth.
• Lead the agentic code translation workflow, implement automated systems for migration tasks.
• Own developer experience for the native codebase, improving build speeds and CI/CD reliability.
• Shape the dual-app synchronization strategy during the transition, prioritizing impact.
• Mentor mobile engineers and foster collaboration across teams.

Skills

Swift/iOS

Kotlin/Android

Mobile architecture decisions

Performance optimization

AI-assisted code generation

CI/CD pipelines

Code translation workflow

Developer experience improvements

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile to lead the App Infra team and rewrite the native mobile app in Swift and Kotlin. You will own architecture, drive performance, and enable AI-assisted translation workflows at scale across iOS and Android.

You will mentor engineers, improve build times, and shape the synchronization strategy between native and React Native during the transition, influencing the broader mobile community at Coinbase.