Y Combinator Senior Software Engineer - Frontend - Coinbase Card team
Summary
Builds and maintains the web and mobile frontend for Coinbase’s crypto debit and credit card products, focusing on payment flows, performance, and user experience.
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Frontend Software Engineer - Coinbase Card Team
As a Frontend Software Engineer on the Coinbase Card team within the Consumer Product Group, you'll build and ship the user-facing experiences behind Coinbase's card products, including the Coinbase One Card (credit) and the Coinbase Card (debit). This team is consolidating both products onto a unified card platform, and you'll join a small team with high ownership, greenfield feature work, and direct impact on how millions of customers discover, activate, and use their cards.
What you’ll do:
- Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto money movement experiences, including send, receive, and transaction status tracking across web and mobile
- Drive measurable improvements in CUJ latency, availability, and SLOs for the payment flows you own
- Build new user-facing features - such as contact management systems and real-time transaction status trackers
- Partner with product, design, and backend engineering to scope, prioritize, and ship projects that reduce CX contact rates and improve the customer experience
- Identify and resolve frontend performance bottlenecks across payment flows, reducing end-to-end latency and improving reliability for millions of users
Required skills and experience:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in React and React Native
- Proven track record of shipping consumer-facing products end-to-end in a high-scale environment, with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience
- Experience owning SLOs and driving measurable improvements in latency and availability for user-facing flows
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers and operate as a senior technical voice on a team of mixed levels
- 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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