Senior Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile

About the Role

Coinbase is 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 initiative involves 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 scale. You will own outcomes spanning the App Infra team and ~30 product teams, establish architectural patterns, and drive a 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.
• Mentor L5-L6 engineers, develop the technical leadership pipeline for native mobile, and recruit actively through reputation.
• Serve as a leader throughout the mobile community at Coinbase, defining best practices and fostering connection and support between 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.
• Track record of owning outcomes spanning 2-3+ teams that drive business impact, including multi-phase platform migrations or rewrites at scale.
• Deep mobile performance expertise across iOS and Android, including cold start optimization, frame stability, scroll jank elimination, and device-tier profiling.
• Proven influence without authority at senior levels, securing leadership alignment on ambiguous high-stakes decisions and resolving cross-team blockers.
• Experience designing AI-native engineering workflows adopted across teams, including LLM-driven code generation, agent-based automation, or reusable automation patterns.
• Demonstrated responsible use of generative AI, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable gains in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Application Rules

• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.