Staff Software Engineer (react Native) - Remote Eligible

Staff Software Engineer (React Native)

At Axelerant, you'll lead major mobile engineering initiatives for enterprise customers, delivering high-quality applications built on React Native and modern mobile ecosystems. You'll help shape long-term mobile strategy, work closely with customer leadership, and guide engineering teams to create reliable and intuitive mobile experiences. We're looking for a Staff-level Mobile Architect with strong hands-on expertise and sound architectural judgment. You will define mobile technical strategy, ensure solid application foundations, and mentor engineers while overseeing the execution of complex mobile programs.

Your Job Responsibilities

Architecture, Strategy, and Leadership

• Design and own the end-to-end architecture for enterprise-grade mobile applications using React Native.
• Define mobile engineering standards, component patterns, and best practices for performance, code quality, testing, and maintainability.
• Lead modernization efforts including modularization, migration planning, and platform scalability improvements.
• Work closely with customer stakeholders to translate business needs into mobile-first architectures and technical solutions.

React Native and Mobile Expertise

• Architect complex React Native applications with advanced state management, navigation, offline-first behaviors, and modular architecture.
• Work with native iOS and Android codebases to integrate platform-specific capabilities.
• Build and maintain custom native modules using Java, Kotlin, Swift, or Objective-C to extend React Native functionality safely and efficiently.
• Ensure high-quality bridging techniques for smooth communication between JavaScript and native layers.
• Evaluate and implement performance optimization strategies for rendering, animations, startup time, bundling, and memory usage.
• Leverage React Native ecosystem tools such as Metro, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, Reanimated, Expo, and platform-specific modules.

Mobile Platform Engineering

• Oversee development workflows, CI/CD automation, codepush/OTA deployments, and mobile release strategies.
• Ensure mobile applications are reliable, secure, and scalable, with strong observability practices across crash reporting, analytics, and logging.
• Architect backend integrations and API design considerations for mobile performance and consistency.
• Guide the implementation of secure mobile practices including encryption, secure storage, authentication, and compliance.

Customer Collaboration and Technical Advisory

• Serve as the primary technical advisor for mobile strategy, architectural decisions, and technology trade-offs.
• Lead technical workshops, solution architecture sessions, and platform assessments for customer teams.
• Ensure alignment between customer objectives and Axelerant's engineering approach while shaping long-term mobile roadmaps.

Team Leadership and Mentorship

• Mentor and guide mobile engineers across React Native, iOS, and Android disciplines.
• Provide technical oversight across multiple mobile workstreams ensuring consistency, quality, and engineering excellence.
• Lead code reviews, design reviews, architectural discussions, and continuous improvement practices.
• Foster a strong engineering culture rooted in quality, innovation, and collaboration.

Governance, Security, and Compliance

• Establish mobile governance frameworks including code quality gates, performance budgets, and testing standards.
• Ensure compliance with app store guidelines, data privacy regulations, and enterprise security requirements.
• Promote automation, CI/CD adoption, unit/integration testing, and robust release processes.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with emerging mobile technologies, React Native advancements, and native platform updates.
• Recommend innovative solutions that enhance user experience, performance, or engineering efficiency.
• Contribute to reusable components, mobile architectural blueprints, and best practice guides shared across Axelerant teams.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Eight or more years of experience designing and delivering complex mobile applications. Deep expertise in React Native, TypeScript, and modern mobile architecture patterns. Experience with native Android and iOS development including Java, Kotlin, Swift, and Objective-C. Ability to build custom native modules and integrate deep native functionality into React Native applications. Experience architecting multilingual and multi-region mobile applications that support dynamic language switching, localized content delivery, and region-specific configurations. Strong understanding of native project structures, build systems, dependency management, and platform-specific debugging. Experience architecting modular, scalable, and high-performance mobile applications. Strong command of mobile CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and app release processes. Experience integrating mobile apps with backend APIs, GraphQL, authentication systems, and third-party SDKs. Expertise in debugging and performance optimization across rendering, networking, memory, and native bridge interactions. Strong understanding of mobile security practices, analytics instrumentation, and application monitoring. Excellent communication skills to collaborate with customers, designers, backend teams, and leadership. Proven leadership experience guiding mobile engineering teams and driving large technical initiatives.

Why Work At Axelerant?

Be part of an AI-first, remote-first digital agency that's shaping the future of customer experiences. Collaborate with global teams and leading platform partners to solve meaningful challenges. Enjoy a culture that supports autonomy, continuous learning, and work-life harmony.

About Axelerant

As a global company that puts care into employee happiness, engineering excellence, and customer success, we are in striking contrast to the typical outsourcing option. We are a diverse team working remotely across many time zones, with success stories that back up capabilities, and a reputation for an unconventional work environment that empowers. We are the individuals directly challenging what it means to do global delivery differently for employees and partners. Success management as our service framework operationally is part of who we are at Axelerant. All of our processes and practices are driven by this core, continuously iterated method. What this means is success management teams and success journey mapping for our partners.

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