Staff Software Engineer (React Native)
Lead mobile engineering for PrizePicks' React Native app, owning architecture, developer tooling, and complex cross-platform features while mentoring engineers and integrating with Go/Rails backends.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Own technical direction: Set and evolve the technical standards, architecture, and best practices for your team’s mobile features, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability of the app.
- Lead the hardest problems: Own the design and delivery of the team’s most complex, highest-scope projects — the ones that require deep technical judgment and cross-system thinking.
- Drive team efficiency: Identify and implement improvements to developer tooling, build pipelines, and development workflows that enable the entire team to iterate faster and ship with more confidence.
- Establish engineering practices: Define and enforce standards for component architecture, testing, accessibility, performance, and mobile deployment across the team.
- Mentor all engineers: Provide mentorship to engineers at every level on the team, shaping technical growth, raising the quality bar, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Collaborate at the organizational level: Work with Engineering Managers, Product leadership, and other Staff/Principal engineers to align technical strategy with business objectives.
- Own cross-stack integration: Ensure the mobile app integrates effectively with backend services (Go and Rails), driving consistency in API contracts and data flows across the platform.
- Participate in on-call rotation: Own systemic reliability improvements and lead incident response for the most critical production issues.
What You Have
Experience:
- 8–10 years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise building production React Native applications at scale
- Proven track record of owning multiple complex technical initiatives and driving them to successful outcomes across a team
- Experience with the full mobile development lifecycle at scale — architecture, build systems, deployment pipelines, and post-release monitoring
- Experience building mobile applications backed by large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems serving millions of users
- History of elevating engineering teams through mentorship, standards-setting, and technical leadership
Technical Skills:
- Mastery-level TypeScript proficiency — you are a reference point for TypeScript best practices, patterns, and type system usage
- Deep React Native expertise — you have solved hard problems around performance, native modules, complex animations, and cross-platform consistency
- Expert experience with Expo and its ecosystem, monorepo tooling (Yarn workspaces), and mobile build/release infrastructure
- Strong understanding of mobile testing strategies at scale — Jest, Maestro for E2E testing, and quality automation
- Proficiency with CI/CD for mobile and Expo/EAS workflows — automated builds, OTA updates, staged rollouts, app store pipelines
- Understanding of backend API patterns — you can read, reason about, and influence API design across Go and Rails services
Working Style:
- Operates with full autonomy — you define your own work and the work of the team based on what matters most
- Exceptional communicator who can represent technical strategy to engineering leadership and non-technical stakeholders
- Experienced in fully remote engineering organizations
- Comfortable making high-stakes technical decisions with incomplete information
What Makes You Stand Out
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools across the full development lifecycle — coding, planning, scoping, and code review
- Vision for how AI tooling and agentic coding practices can accelerate team productivity and improve engineering outcomes
Benefits
- Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Annual bonus
- Flexible PTO (2 weeks strongly encouraged)
- Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
- Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules
- Company-wide in-person events and team outings
- Lifestyle enhancement program
- Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
- Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development
Skills
TypeScript, React Native, Expo, Yarn, Jest, Maestro, CI/CD, Go, Rails, Monorepo
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