Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

Note

The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coinbase is a leading company in the cryptocurrency space, committed to increasing economic freedom. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend to lead the front-end technical strategy for their Advanced Trading platform, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability of web and mobile trading clients.

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
• Familiarity with high-availability, low-latency systems (trading platforms, financial systems, or real-time data applications preferred)
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility
• 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.

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.