Role Overview
We are hiring a senior React Native engineer to build highly polished, animation-heavy mobile experiences with strong focus on rendering performance, interaction quality, and modern UI architecture.
Requirements:
Experience
- 5+ years professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years production experience with React Native
- 2+ years' experience building advanced mobile animations/interactions
- Experience shipping at least 1 consumer-facing mobile app with:
- 50k+ users
- OR high engagement usage patterns
- OR animation-intensive interfaces
Technical Skills
Strong experience with:
- React Native Reanimated
- React Native Gesture Handler
- performance optimization and profiling
- gesture-driven interfaces
- shared values/worklets
- virtualization and render optimization
- mobile rendering fundamentals
Preferred:
- Skia
- Fabric/New Architecture
- JSI/native modules
- shader or graphics experience
- experience optimizing for low-end Android devices
Performance Expectations
Candidate should be able to:
- build interactions targeting 60 FPS on mid-range Android devices
- diagnose frame drops and rendering bottlenecks
- explain CPU vs GPU tradeoffs
- optimize JS thread utilization
- minimize unnecessary rerenders/layout passes
Portfolio Requirements
Please include:
- 2–3 videos of advanced mobile interactions you implemented
- links to shipped apps
- explanation of your specific contribution
- examples of performance problems you solved
