Frontend Engineer (React.js, CSS)
About The Company:
Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency platform committed to increasing economic freedom worldwide. We operate in a high-bar, intense environment that challenges our team members to push beyond their perceived limits. Our mission is uncompromising, and we seek individuals who are passionate about building the future of finance alongside colleagues who refuse to settle for "good enough." Coinbase is a remote-first company, offering flexibility with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges” to foster collaboration and innovation. Join us to be part of a dynamic organization at the forefront of the crypto revolution.
About The Role:
As a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend on the Advanced Trading team within the Consumer & Business group, you will lead the front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced, our trading platform designed for experienced traders. This role involves owning the performance, reliability, and scalability of our web and mobile trading clients, delivering low-latency interfaces that serve traders across multiple instrument types. You will have a high-impact position at the intersection of cryptocurrency, trading infrastructure, and consumer product development, where your technical leadership will shape both the platform and the engineering team responsible for building it.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of iOS or Android mobile software engineering experience (Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android), with working proficiency in the other platform
- Willingness to develop cross-platform fluency, as engineers on this team own both iOS and Android applications
- Proven track record optimizing complex UI systems for performance, including rendering optimization, network efficiency, and state management at scale
- Experience leading technical strategy for a product area, including architecture decisions, trade-off analysis, and cross-team alignment for multi-quarter initiatives
- Demonstrated success mentoring senior engineers and driving measurable improvements in team engineering standards and delivery velocity
- Familiarity with high-availability, low-latency systems such as trading platforms, financial systems, or real-time data applications is preferred
- Responsible use of generative AI technologies, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
Responsibilities:
- Own the front-end technical roadmap for Coinbase Advanced, defining architecture decisions that enable a reliable, scalable trading platform across web and mobile
- Drive measurable performance improvements across rendering, network efficiency, and state management to deliver a low-latency trading experience
- Lead complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives end-to-end, setting and enforcing high standards for code quality, system design, and engineering rigor
- Strengthen the engineering team through hands-on mentorship of senior engineers, elevating technical decision-making and fostering growth across the subteam
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate business priorities into actionable technical plans and ship high-impact features
- Shape front-end engineering practices and patterns that scale with a growing team, establishing conventions that accelerate development velocity
Benefits:
- Competitive annual base salary ranging from $218,025 to $256,500 USD, excluding bonuses
- Bonus eligibility based on performance
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Remote-first work environment with quarterly in-person collaboration sessions
- Opportunities for professional growth and mentorship within a high-impact team
Equal Opportunity
Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.