Senior Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile

Coinbase is a company focused on increasing economic freedom and building the future of finance. The Senior Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile will serve as a technical architect for the native mobile platform, leading the transition from React Native to native Swift and Kotlin applications. The role will establish mobile architecture, drive AI-assisted migration strategies, influence cross-functional teams, and develop technical leadership across the mobile engineering organization.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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