React Native Developer

About This Role

This role is for a React Native Developer to build and ship consumer-facing applications, focusing on performance, reliability, and an exceptional user experience. The ideal candidate has a strong background in developing apps that have scaled to a large user base and a deep understanding of the mobile ecosystem.

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years shipping React Native apps that are live on the Play Store or App Store
• Experience with a consumer app that grew past 100K active users, where you measurably reduced crashes, slow screens, and checkout drop-off
• Strong TypeScript and a deep grip on React Native: the new architecture, native modules, Reanimated and gestures, navigation, and profiling on real devices; ability to explain why a screen is slow and fix it
• Experience building or consuming a BFF (backend-for-frontend) layer and server-driven UI in production
• Proficiency in wiring observability and event SDKs properly: product analytics and session replay (PostHog or similar), crash reporting (Crashlytics or Sentry), and marketing and attribution SDKs such as MoEngage and the Meta SDK, with a clean event taxonomy
• Experience with Expo and EAS, or an equivalent build, release, and OTA pipeline
• Practice with automated testing as part of the feature, not after it: Jest, React Native Testing Library, and Maestro or Detox on real devices
• Strong UI/UX sense and real empathy; ability to design a flow without a mock and understand user anxieties (e.g., ordering medicine)
• Inclusive design experience, demonstrable with apps built for elderly, low-literacy, or first-time smartphone users, and the accessibility and readability choices made
• Performance-tier engineering experience: an app that adapts to low-end devices and slow networks, and the measurements used to segment it
• Comfort going native when needed: Kotlin for Android modules, logcat and the profiler
• Daily use of AI coding assistants, with proof of increased speed without lowering output quality
• Strong opinions about what a good mobile experience feels like, and a shipped app that demonstrates them
• Ownership mentality, having carried a product from design through launch and post-production incidents without a QA team

Nice to have:

• Experience in quick-commerce, healthcare, fintech, or any consumer app where first and repeat orders were key metrics
• Knowledge of push and in-app campaign tooling beyond the SDK install: journeys, segments, and deep links that land on the right screen
• Experience with Firebase (Remote Config, Crashlytics, Realtime Database) and a cloud platform (AWS preferred)
• Hardware-adjacent mobile work: camera and barcode scanning, background location, foreground services
• Swift and iOS experience