Staff Native Mobile Engineer - AI-Driven App Rewrite

Coinbase, Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile to lead the native mobile rewrite in Swift and Kotlin within the App Infra team. You will own core architecture, drive migrations from React Native, and shape technical excellence for millions of users.

You will stay hands-on, optimize performance, improve developer experience with faster builds and robust CI/CD, and mentor engineers across mobile teams as Coinbase advances its native-first strategy.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of mobile software engineering experience on iOS or Android.
• Own architecture decisions and high-quality mobile apps at scale.
• Experience with performance optimization across device tiers.
• Experience with AI-assisted code generation or LLM workflows.
• Experience improving developer experience with build systems and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of core native app surfaces in Swift and Kotlin.
• Stay hands-on across codebases, reviewing code.
• Lead the agentic code translation workflow for migration from React Native to native.
• Own developer experience, improve build speeds and CI/CD reliability.
• Mentor L3-L5 mobile engineers and shape mobile community practices.

Skills

Mobile engineering

App architecture

Code translation

AI-assisted code

CI/CD

Mentoring

Performance

Tools

Swift

Kotlin

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile to lead the native mobile rewrite in Swift and Kotlin within the App Infra team. You will own core architecture, drive migrations from React Native, and shape technical excellence for millions of users.

You will stay hands-on, optimize performance, improve developer experience with faster builds and robust CI/CD, and mentor engineers across mobile teams as Coinbase advances its native-first strategy.