Mobile Engineer — React Native
United StatesRemote3+ YOE
Summary
Build and maintain React Native mobile features for a fast-growing AI-native consumer social app, focusing on performance, UX, and rapid iteration with AI tools. Requires 3+ years experience and strong React Native proficiency.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Build and ship React Native mobile features end-to-end across Sekai’s core consumer experience
- Work on high-impact product surfaces such as feed, discovery, creation, play experience, sharing, onboarding, retention, and user engagement
- Improve mobile app performance, stability, responsiveness, and overall product quality
- Debug and fix production issues quickly, with strong judgment around user impact and prioritization
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Backend, and Growth to turn product ideas into shipped mobile experiences
- Integrate React / web-based interactive content into the mobile app experience where needed
- Use analytics, logs, crash reports, and user feedback to identify and solve mobile product issues
- Use AI aggressively in day-to-day development, debugging, prototyping, testing, and iteration
- Help shape Sekai’s long-term mobile architecture as the product scales
Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally with mobile or consumer-facing products
- Strong hands-on experience with React Native
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript / JavaScript
- Experience shipping production mobile apps on iOS and/or Android
- Good understanding of mobile app architecture, navigation, state management, API integration, release cycles, and app store deployment
- Strong product sense and care for user experience, especially on mobile
- Able to debug issues independently and move quickly from problem discovery to shipped fix
- Highly AI-native, with strong familiarity using modern AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or similar tools
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive work end-to-end
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment with ambiguity
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Android Native development, especially Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, or Jetpack Compose
- Experience optimizing Android performance, including startup time, scrolling performance, memory usage, crash rate, ANR, and low-end Android device performance
- Experience building or maintaining hybrid mobile architectures, including React Native + native modules, WebView integration, or native bridges
- Experience with Flutter, especially migrating from Flutter to React Native or maintaining apps across multiple mobile stacks
- Experience with mobile-first consumer products, social products, UGC platforms, gaming, entertainment, creator tools, or feed-based apps
- Experience with mobile analytics, crash reporting, and performance tools such as Firebase, Amplitude, GA4, Sentry, Datadog, Android Studio Profiler, or similar tools
- Experience at an early-stage startup or high-growth consumer company
- Strong side projects, open-source contributions, or independently shipped apps are a plus
Skills
React NativeTypeScriptJavaScriptiOSAndroidKotlinJavaAndroid SDKJetpack ComposeFlutterFirebaseAmplitudeGA4SentryDatadog