We did consider Flutter, but (1) we already had a very strong javascript talent base that we wanted to leverage; (2) at the time when we made the decision, Flutter was still relatively early in its lifecycle.
That said, we've spent a lot of time talking with teams using Flutter and we think it's awesome!
What does your CI/CD look like? It took me a long time to fully flesh out a RN pipeline that was (mostly) completely automated. Are you leveraging Fastlane? Are you buliding both Android and iOS on OSX VMs? How do you deal with shipping canary versions and is that process also automated? Thanks!
We talked a good amount about this [here](https://twitter.com/dan_coff/status/1393599897119592456). We are using Fastlane. We are building iOS on OSX, but Android on more standard EC2 hardware. We ship canaries with every commit to master, fully automated.
Not really a question but more of a statement that Discover also transitioned from Native to React Native successfully and I believe they also didn't do a brownfield implementation. There was a presentation about this at React Chicago but I can't seem to find it.
All of them were cross-trained to be React Native engineers. Many of them are now working full time in React-land doing product engineering and some of them are working on lower level native infrastructure. We saw very little attrition and have emerged as a stronger, unified client engineering group (across mobile and web).
The ones that were initially hired to work native Android / iOS?
We’re they down sized? Re trained? Etc. and so on. Can you speak about the process around this and so on. I understand you want to give a positive image externally here, but I’m more interested in what struggles occurred and how you resolved it / did not resolve it.
Digital currency will bring about more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity in the world by creating an open financial system. We can use this new technology to help good ideas spread faster, reduce the inefficiencies that legacy payment networks impose on the world, and provide access to financial services to several billion people in the developing world.
I've personally been here for 3 years and love it. Tons of autonomy, lots of really challenging problems, and a super mission aligned employee group.
We're particularly interested in folks who are interested in building a world-class Javascript platform across React and React Native. Also, we just went fully remote-first (focus on US-remote hiring for now), so would love to hear from folks who are interested in that!
Digital currency will bring about more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity in the world by creating an open financial system. We can use this new technology to help good ideas spread faster, reduce the inefficiencies that legacy payment networks impose on the world, and provide access to financial services to several billion people in the developing world.
I've personally been here for 3 years and love it. Tons of autonomy, lots of really challenging problems, and a super mission aligned employee group.
We're particularly interested in folks who are interested in building a world-class Javascript platform across React and React Native.
Digital currency will bring about more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity in the world by creating an open financial system. We can use this new technology to help good ideas spread faster, reduce the inefficiencies that legacy payment networks impose on the world, and provide access to financial services to several billion people in the developing world.
I've personally been here for 3 years and love it. Tons of autonomy, lots of really challenging problems, and a super mission aligned employee group.
To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/coinbase
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Digital currency will bring about more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity in the world by creating an open financial system. We can use this new technology to help good ideas spread faster, reduce the inefficiencies that legacy payment networks impose on the world, and provide access to financial services to several billion people in the developing world.
To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/coinbase
Come join us! To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/coinbase!
Hi all — head of engineering for the consumer product at Coinbase here (iOS, Android, coinbase.com).
Happy to answer any questions that people have — also, just wanted to make a plug that we're hiring. If you're interested in building an open financial system for the world, shoot me a note at jpollak@coinbase.com. Especially interested in iOS & Android engineers!
What will Coinbase do if there is a contentious hard-fork of the Ethereum chain and different USDC supporting exchanges decide to follow different forks?
In this case, the issuer of USDC, Circle, would be the one to decide which fork of Ethereum to support. It's not like USDC the ERC20 token is worth anything without Circle's backing.
This is a hard question. I don't have an answer for you, but if a situation like this arises, we'll be sure to clearly communicate our thought and decision process to our customers. Thanks for asking!
If you actually cared about an Open Financial System you would list Dai on Coinbase. Centralized stablecoins allowing issuers to freeze and blacklist is a step backwards not forwards.
What are your thoughts on MakerDao which uses the MKR and Dai tokens for decentralized collateral backed stablecoins called Dai?
Their implementation is happening a bit slower due to the novelties but it offers the MKR which is a profit incentive for proliferation, and may be more resilient than centralized stablecoins
Personal opinion, not the company: I think it's very cool. I've been watching them since they launched and have been impressed with their consistent progress. I love using it as an example of financial experimentation and success: they launched at the top of the bubble and have been able to keep stability even as crypto has gone through a massive crash! Pretty amazing.
