Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Platform - Identity)

About the Position

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Platform - Identity) to join our team at Coinbase. This role is pivotal in defining the native mobile architecture for identity verification and authentication, ensuring secure and seamless customer interactions across iOS and Android platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the native mobile architecture for Identity surfaces in Swift and Kotlin, defining module boundaries, navigation patterns, and platform abstractions.
• Drive the native versus webview strategy for authentication and identity verification flows, evaluating trade-offs across latency, reliability, conversion, and user experience.
• Build and optimize critical mobile flows including biometric authentication, document capture, liveness detection, and device-aware identity signals.
• Partner with backend, product, security, and fraud teams to integrate mobile Identity surfaces with platform APIs, vendor orchestration layers, and risk signals.
• Lead technical design and code quality across the mobile Identity codebase, reviewing code at depth, authoring RFCs for cross-cutting decisions, and mentoring L3-L5 mobile engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of native mobile software engineering experience in Swift/iOS or Kotlin/Android, with proficiency in the other platform and willingness to develop cross-platform fluency.
• Track record of owning mobile architecture decisions for complex, multi-screen flows at scale, with shipped outcomes in authentication, identity verification, or similarly high-trust user journeys.
• Deep understanding of mobile performance optimization including cold start, frame rendering, camera and sensor integration, and time-to-interaction tuning across device tiers.
• Demonstrated ability to drive native versus webview technical strategy, with experience evaluating trade-offs across reliability, latency, and iteration speed for sensitive user flows.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with backend platform, product, and security teams to ship integrated mobile experiences that depend on distributed backend services.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $186,065 to $218,900 USD per year.
• Equity and bonus eligibility.
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan with company match, wellness stipend, mobile/internet reimbursement, volunteer time off, fertility counseling and benefits, and generous time off/leave policy.
• Option to get paid in digital currency.

About the Company

At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”

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