Senior Software Engineer (React Native)

Straight Arrow is on a mission to restore trust in the news by delivering fair, fact-based journalism. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in React Native development to own the mobile codebase for their customer-facing mobile app and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products.

Responsibilities:

• Build new experiences that delight customers
• Own architecture and day-to-day development of our React Native / Expo mobile application
• Partner closely with our API engineers, not as a downstream consumer, but as a co-author of requirements and contracts
• Work side-by-side with the web engineering team to ship cohesive, parallel experiences across platforms; coordinate shared patterns, shared concerns, and shared deadlines
• Collaborate daily with product, design, and QA to translate ambiguous customer problems into clean, shippable solutions
• Set the technical bar for the mobile codebase through architecture, code review, testing strategy, performance work, accessibility, and release engineering
• Mentor and uplevel other engineers and act as a force multiplier rather than a single point of throughput
• Drive technical decisions with a relentless customer focus: what we ship has to work, in the real world, on real devices, for real users

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial recent experience in React Native development
• Deep, demonstrated expertise with React Native across both iOS and Android, including the practical realities of cross-platform development (platform differences, native modules, performance, app store release processes)
• Hands-on experience using Expo as a development platform - managed workflow, EAS Build / Submit / Update, and the tradeoffs involved
• Ability to write and maintain native bridges - comfort dropping into Swift/Objective-C and Kotlin/Java when needed
• A strong customer focus, with a track record of building customer-facing enterprise applications that real people depend on
• Experience working with an API, helping define requirements, shape contracts, and contribute to implementation decisions
• Demonstrated technical leadership as a senior IC: setting architectural direction, raising code quality through review and example, and helping less-senior engineers grow through pairing and technical guidance
• Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional partners in product, design, QA, and adjacent engineering teams
• Strong written and verbal communication; comfort operating autonomously in a fully remote environment
• Experience integrating with a WordPress backend
• Experience with user management and subscription / paywall platforms such as Piano
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and mobile-specific delivery (TestFlight, Play Console, OTA updates via EAS)
• Experience working with consent management systems
• Experience shipping in a media, news, or content-heavy product environment