TL;DR
Staff frontend engineer at Coinbase building the Advanced trading platform. Lead technical strategy for web and mobile trading clients, optimizing for low-latency performance and reliability across multiple instrument types.
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As a Staff Software Engineer, Frontend on the Advanced Trading team within the Consumer & Business group, you'll lead the front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced, our trading platform for experienced traders. You'll own the performance, reliability, and scalability of our web and mobile trading clients, driving low-latency interfaces that serve traders across multiple instrument types. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of crypto, trading infrastructure, and consumer product, where your technical leadership will shape both the platform and the engineering team building it.
What you'll do:
- 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
Required Skills and Experience:
- 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.
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Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Annual base salary range (excluding bonus):
$218,025—$256,500 USD
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 4 applications per 30-day period.
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