jessepollak

Mostly teams within Google that have had success with it.

Hi!

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).

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.

We are doing this already and plan to increase the investment over time. Stay tuned!

This is an excellent summary of our approach - thanks for writing it up :)

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!

Hi all - I support all Retail engineering at Coinbase and was one of the folks who helped shepherd this change through from inception to rollout.

I'm happy to answer any questions that folks have - just thread here, and I'll either answer or pull in our team to give more detail.

Coinbase (YC S12) | Remote, San Francisco, New York, London | Onsite | https://www.coinbase.com

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!

See all our open roles at Coinbase here: https://coinbase.com/careers

Tech Stack: Go, Ruby Rails, React (web), Swift (iOS), Kotlin & React Native (Android)

If you're interested in chatting more, feel free to shoot me an email at jpollak@coinbase.com. Looking forward to talking!

Coinbase (YC S12) | San Francisco, New York, London | Onsite | https://www.coinbase.com

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.

See all our open roles at Coinbase here: https://coinbase.com/careers

Tech Stack: Go, Ruby Rails, React (web), Swift (iOS), Kotlin & React Native (Android)

If you're interested in chatting more, feel free to shoot me an email at jpollak@coinbase.com. Looking forward to talking!

Coinbase (YC S12) | San Francisco, New York, London | Onsite | https://www.coinbase.com

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

See all our open roles at Coinbase here: https://grnh.se/8a8a01cf1

Tech Stack: Go, Ruby Rails, React (web), Swift (iOS), Kotlin & React Native (Android)

If you're interested in chatting more, feel free to shoot me an email at jpollak@coinbase.com. Looking forward to talking!

Coinbase (YC S12) | San Francisco, New York, Chicago, London | Onsite | https://www.coinbase.com

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

See All Open Roles at Coinbase here: https://grnh.se/8a8a01cf1

Tech Stack: Ruby, Rails, Go (Backend) React, Flow, styled-components, Mobx (Frontend), Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android)

If you're interested in chatting more, feel free to shoot me an email at jpollak@coinbase.com. Looking forward to talking!

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!

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.

I can't comment for them on this one, sorry!

Yes, you can see the contract here: https://etherscan.io/address/0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb.... Thanks!

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!

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!

Coinbase | Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Security Engineer | San Francisco, London | REMOTE, VISA | coinbase.com

We are hiring engineers to help us create an open financial system for the world. Specifically, I'm hiring both frontend and backend engineers to build Coinbase.com and the APIs that power the Coinbase mobile apps. Come work on digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum every day!

About us:

* We use React, Mobx, Flow, webpack, and styled-components on the frontend.

* Our APIs are currently powered by Rails with a MongoDB backend, but we're investing heavily in decomposing the monolith into services written in statically typed languages.

* We're exploring GraphQL for future APIs and are hiring two people to lead our APIs team.

If you're interested, email me at jpollak@coinbase.com. I'm also more than happy to answer questions on here (about Coinbase in general or the roles).

NOTE: A spammer posted this same post below, not sure why.

Go and Kotlin for now!

We don't have any part-time opportunities, but we'll be hiring interns next summer!

Coinbase | Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Security Engineer | San Francisco, London | REMOTE, VISA | coinbase.com

We are hiring engineers to help us create an open financial system for the world. Specifically, I'm hiring both frontend and backend engineers to build Coinbase.com and the APIs that power the Coinbase mobile apps. Come work on digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum every day!

About us:

* We use React, Mobx, Flow, webpack, and styled-components on the frontend.

* Our APIs are currently powered by Rails with a MongoDB backend, but we're investing heavily in decomposing the monolith into services written in statically typed languages.

* We're exploring GraphQL for future APIs and are hiring two people to lead our APIs team.

If you're interested, email me at jpollak@coinbase.com.

Shoot me an email at jesse@instant2fa.com — if you'd like to pitch it internally, I can work with you to find a price that works!

Ha — I'd never ask you to buy into that idea!

I think this article could easily have been titled "Choosing Ember over building our web framework"

I think this is a fair criticism and I agree that I might have used this comparison in a simplified way to make my point, but I think the primary thesis still holds: when building a React app, you necessarily need to make a very large number of choices that you don't need to make when building Ember.

This isn't because React is bad, it's because React is just the view layer! If we look at it this way, we can re-examine that list as:

* language

* view

* data modeling

* routing

* network connections

* functional utilities

* build

* styling

* testing

And, with React, when you have just a view layer, if you want to build an advanced application, you likely need to add on a bunch of other layers to get everything working. I hear you about being able to "just use React", but I also think that's a an oversimplification the other way: how many applications on the web today are built with only the view layer and none of the others?

After evaluating all the decisions we made in the past when building a React app, we decide to trust someone else to make them for us :)

p.s. the original title was "Choosing Ember of the React ecosystem in 2016" but I ended up shortening it :)

Absolutely! I would say that with Ember + ember-data, the framework conforms to a pattern where data is represented as models on the frontend, which can be updated and persisted to the server. These updates happen through a CRUD / REST API (in our case we conform to JSONAPI) and are generally triggered in a controller (or a route that contains logic and acts similar to a controller in a traditional MVC framework).

In the React ecosystem, I think there's been a pretty stark departure from that general pattern with things like redux and GraphQL, so while we love it, compared to what we'd been using , it felt a little behind.

Does that make sense?

Hey everyone - OP here! This was a really fun blog post to write and I think I learned a bunch in the process: if you have any questions, would be happy to answer!

I'm the author of this post — would love to answer any questions about our decision if people have them!

Yeah, at our current size + team composition we don't feel like we have the knowledge/experience to do remote work well. With that informing our decision making, we've decided to prioritize other things (that have different tradeoffs).

I think as we keep growing this will definitely change. Would love to learn from someone like you who's obviously been super successful at doing remote well :)

Wasn't intentional, but I like your thinking :P