Senior Software Engineer, Frontend - Identity

Coinbase

United States$186,065 - $218,900 / yearSoftware Development

About Coinbase

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? 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.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

Team Overview

The team manages everything related to a user's identity at Coinbase. This includes login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-factor authentication. The Horizontal Frontend team within the Identity org is responsible for building and maintaining the frontend surfaces that power these critical user interactions. The team works closely with backend pods to deliver seamless, scalable, and reliable user experiences.

The team is also focused on migrating main frontend views to React Native, enabling a unified codebase across platforms. Additionally, the team is working on initiatives like multi-user and multi-organization support, ensuring Coinbase products can scale to meet the needs of businesses and organizations. The challenging part is building world-class frontend experiences while maintaining low latencies and high reliability, all while collaborating with multiple cross-functional teams (XFN) at scale.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Build and enhance frontend experiences for login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-user/multi-organization support.
  • Contribute to the migration of main frontend views to React Native, ensuring a unified and efficient codebase across platforms.
  • Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and high-performance user interfaces using modern frontend technologies like React and TypeScript.
  • Collaborate with backend engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to turn product and technical visions into tangible roadmaps.
  • Maintain low-latency, highly reliable frontend surfaces to deliver a world-class user experience.
  • Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of Coinbase’s growing user base.

What We Look For in You:

  • You have at least 5+ years of experience in frontend software engineering.
  • You’ve designed, built, scaled, and maintained production-grade frontend systems.
  • You have expertise in modern frontend frameworks like React and TypeScript.
  • You write high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
  • You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
  • Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.

Nice to Haves:

  • Experience with React Native or migrating web views to mobile platforms.
  • You have gone through a rapid growth phase in your company (from startup to mid-size).
  • Familiarity with authentication, identity, or security domains.
  • Experience optimizing frontend performance for low-latency, high-reliability systems.
  • Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with on-chain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.  For US applicants, you may view the Employee Rights and the Know Your Rights notices by clicking on their corresponding links. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

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AI Disclosure

For select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.  

For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. 

The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com