Senior React Native Developer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 6 May 2026
LOCATION
Remote
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Software Engineering
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SKILLS

React Native Mobile App Development State Management Performance Optimization Native Modules (iOS/Android) CI/CD Monitoring/Observability System Design

FULL DESCRIPTION

Senior React Native Developer

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is seeking a Senior React Native Developer to lead mobile app expansion. This is a remote, full-time position within approximately ±4 hours of CET.

About Us

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a leading tech company that creates and operates innovative consumer products. We offer a diverse range of opportunities across the health, education, and entertainment industries. Learn more at https://rubylabs.com/about-us/.

About the Role

At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] we’re looking for a Senior React Native Developer to join our growing engineering team and help lead our expansion into mobile. You’ll play a key role in building and scaling our mobile applications, shaping the future of our mobile offering, and collaborating closely with backend and product teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the development and delivery of new mobile product features.
  • Maintain and improve the existing React Native codebase, performance, and stability.
  • Define and evolve mobile architecture, system design, and technical strategy.
  • Partner with backend, product, and design teams to shape solutions that scale.
  • Drive reliability, performance, and observability standards on mobile.
  • Own production debugging, incident investigation, and root cause analysis.
  • Guide improvements in build systems, CI/CD, releases, testing, and app store deployments.
  • Support hiring and help grow a world-class mobile engineering team.
  • Champion performance across rendering, navigation, latency, memory, offline behavior, caching, and real-time experiences.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building mobile applications, with significant React Native experience.
  • Experience mentoring engineers through code reviews, architecture, and incident response is a strong plus.
  • Strong understanding of mobile system design, component architecture, state management, navigation patterns, and performance trade-offs.
  • Experience optimizing UI performance, memory usage, rendering efficiency, and startup time.
  • Deep knowledge of React internals and rendering behavior (hooks, reconciliation, lifecycle, render cost).
  • Experience working with native modules and iOS/Android bridging.
  • Shipped and maintained apps on the App Store and Google Play.
  • Experience with CI/CD, builds, release automation, and OTA updates (EAS, CodePush, or similar).
  • Experience implementing monitoring and observability (Sentry, OpenTelemetry, crash reporting, performance tracing).
  • Demonstrated ownership of edge cases, distributed failure modes, degraded APIs, offline sync, and recovery UX.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead architecture or technical strategy for a mobile app or major feature.
  • Maintains high standards for clean code, SOLID principles, maintainability, and documentation.

Nice to Have

  • Experience in startup or high-ownership product teams.
  • Experience scaling real-time or multi-region mobile architectures.
  • Experience designing or building design systems, shared component libraries, or mobile platform foundations.
  • Experience improving mobile security, analytics, performance profiling, and release automation.
  • Knowledge of edge caching, streaming real-time events, WebSockets, or offline-first architectures.

Benefits

Discover the perks of being part of [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]! We offer:

  • Remote Work Environment: Embrace the freedom to work from anywhere.
  • Unlimited PTO: Enjoy unlimited paid time off.
  • Paid National Holidays: Celebrate and relax on national holidays.
  • Company-provided MacBook: Apple MacBooks provided to all employees who need them.
  • Flexible Independent Contractor Agreement: Unlock flexibility and autonomy. Read more: here.

Life at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], we move fast, aim high, and expect the same from our team. If you’re hungry to achieve, motivated by impact, and want to grow at the speed of your own ambition, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] offers the platform to make it happen.

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