Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a remote-first company focused on increasing economic freedom, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend for their Advanced Trading team. In this role, you will lead the front-end technical strategy for the trading platform, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability while mentoring senior engineers and collaborating with product leadership.
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
Skills
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in modern front-end frameworks (React, React Native, or equivalent) and mobile development environments
• 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
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
• Familiarity with high-availability, low-latency systems (trading platforms, financial systems, or real-time data applications preferred)
Benefits
• Total compensation may also include bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
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.