Staff Software Engineer, Mobile QA

Coinbase

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$218,025–$286,500 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $219k
This role $252k
$164k most similar roles pay here $300k

This role pays more than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $186,975–$250,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $252k versus about $219k 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 68 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $199,367–$234,550 across 62 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Mobile QA

Staff Software Engineer, Mobile QA joins the App Infra team within the Consumer & Business group to support a greenfield native rewrite of the retail mobile app. This role involves replacing an existing React Native codebase with Swift and Kotlin to improve performance for millions of customers. You will own the technical strategy for mobile QA infrastructure, building and scaling automated test systems for regression testing, performance validation, and release readiness gating. Key responsibilities include defining quality standards, managing dual-codebase parity during migrations, and establishing operational practices for approximately thirty product teams. You will partner with leadership to define SLOs and quality dashboards while mentoring engineers on test architecture and native debugging. The role requires expertise in Swift, Kotlin, and designing automated regression systems for iOS and Android at scale.

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What you'll do

  • Own the technical strategy for mobile QA infrastructure during the transition from React Native to native Swift and Kotlin.
  • Design and implement automated test systems for regression testing, performance validation, and release readiness gating.
  • Lead the QA readiness workstream for phased rollouts by defining success metrics and operational requirements.
  • Determine optimal investment levels for testing resources based on diminishing returns in quality gains.
  • Partner with leadership to define SLOs and create metric-driven dashboards for rollout speed decisions.
  • Create the QA onboarding playbook and mentor engineers on test architecture, native debugging, and quality standards.
  • Manage dual-codebase parity validation and lead postmortems to improve engineering practices during large-scale migrations.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with expertise in mobile test infrastructure for native iOS and Android at scale.
  • Proven track record of defining and delivering test infrastructure strategy that other engineering teams depend on.
  • Proficiency in Swift and Kotlin to architect test frameworks, debug native app behavior, and enforce compile-time quality constraints.
  • Experience operating QA processes during large-scale migrations or platform transitions including dual-codebase parity validation and phased rollout gates.
  • Demonstrated ability to build alignment with cross-functional partners on quality standards, testing strategy, and release criteria.
  • Ability to use generative AI responsibly to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency.

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