Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Consumer - Advanced Trading)

Coinbase

Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$218,025–$256,500 / yr
Posted
5 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $212k
This role $237k
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This role pays more than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $186,850–$237,262 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $237k versus about $212k for comparable roles.

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About Coinbase

Coinbase Global is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange platform where consumers can buy, sell, and store digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. Industry: Cryptocurrency Exchange & Financial Technology

Coinbase currently has 59 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $193,970–$228,200 across 53 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Consumer - Advanced Trading)

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Advanced Trading team within the Consumer & Business group at Coinbase, you will lead the front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability of web and mobile trading clients. Your daily responsibilities include driving low-latency interfaces, optimizing rendering, network efficiency, and state management to enhance user experience, while also leading multi-quarter initiatives and mentoring senior engineers to elevate team standards. You will partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate business priorities into technical plans and establish engineering practices that scale with the growing team. This role requires deep expertise in modern front-end frameworks like React or React Native, extensive experience optimizing complex UI systems for performance, and a proven track record of leading technical strategy and mentoring senior engineers.

What you'll do

  • Own the front-end technical roadmap for Coinbase Advanced, ensuring a reliable trading platform.
  • Drive performance improvements in rendering, network efficiency, and state management for low-latency interfaces.
  • Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from start to finish with high standards for code quality and system design.
  • Mentor senior engineers to elevate technical decision-making and foster team growth within the engineering subteam.
  • Translate business priorities into actionable technical plans to deliver high-impact features efficiently.

What we're looking for

  • Over 8 years of software engineering experience with expertise in modern front-end frameworks.
  • Proven ability to optimize complex UI systems for performance and scalability.
  • Experience leading technical strategy and architecture decisions for product areas.
  • Success in mentoring senior engineers and improving team standards and delivery velocity.
  • Familiarity with high-availability, low-latency systems such as trading platforms or real-time data applications.

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