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[Remote] Senior Staff Software Engineer, Native Mobile

🌍 Remote · Italy 💼 Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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

Skills

  • 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

Benefits

  • Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility
  • Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k))
  • Coinbase is a remote-first company
  • Quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges”

Company Overview

  • Coinbase is a crypto exchange and wallet platform that allows merchants and consumers to buy, sell, and store digital currencies. It is a sub-organization of Coinbase. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.coinbase.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Coinbase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 56 in 2026, 181 in 2025, 92 in 2024, 96 in 2023, 284 in 2022, 183 in 2021, 66 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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