Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native)

• Focus: Cross-platform mobile development for iOS and Android

Description

You will build and evolve a fast, reliable, and intuitive mobile experience for readers using React Native. This is a hands-on, product-minded role partnering with Product, Design, Data, Backend Engineering, and newsroom stakeholders to ship features and improve personalization, subscriptions, notifications, engagement, performance, accessibility, and long-term growth.

Responsibilities

• Develop reader-facing features for iOS and Android in React Native

• Improve app performance, reliability, responsiveness, and stability

• Build mobile-first experiences for content discovery, personalization, notifications, and reader engagement

• Integrate with APIs, authentication systems, analytics platforms, push notification systems, and third-party services

• Support experimentation, feature flagging, observability, and release management

• Create scalable mobile foundations as the product grows

• Design, develop, test, and maintain cross-platform mobile applications

• Own significant mobile features end-to-end (technical planning through implementation, release, and iteration)

• Collaborate with Product and Design to translate user needs and mobile UX patterns into polished, accessible experiences

• Partner with Backend and Data to integrate APIs, analytics, personalization, and engagement tools

• Improve mobile performance, debugging, monitoring, and production reliability

• Contribute to mobile architecture, engineering standards, CI/CD practices, and release processes

• Troubleshoot production issues using data, observability, and user feedback

• Mentor other engineers and help raise the quality of mobile development across the team

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience

• 3+ years of hands-on experience building production mobile applications with React Native

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript

• Experience developing for both iOS and Android

• Understanding of mobile app lifecycle, deployment, app store processes, and release management

• Experience integrating RESTful APIs with modern backend systems

• Familiarity with state management patterns such as Redux or Context API

• Strong understanding of mobile performance optimization, debugging, testing, and observability

• Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines

• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Product-minded approach and interest in building excellent user experiences

Nice to Have

• Experience with Expo and modern React Native tooling

• Experience with analytics, engagement platforms, push notifications, or in-app messaging

• Familiarity with experimentation, A/B testing, personalization, or subscription products

• Knowledge of mobile accessibility, security, and performance best practices

• Experience in media/news or other high-scale digital product environments

• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures or AWS-based ecosystems

Benefits

• Salary range: $140,000–$150,000 (no corporate bonus opportunity)