Senior React Native SDK Engineer - Remote Eligible

Senior React Native SDK Engineer

Stream is looking for a Senior React Native SDK Engineer to join one of our SDK teams.

This is a full-time job, either in our Amsterdam office (hybrid) or remote if currently based in an EU country. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are possible.

What Will You Work On

You'll join our React Native efforts around our Video, Chat, and Feeds SDKs. This will be an opportunity to learn from experienced and talented engineers and work on a product that impacts more than 1 billion end-users.

You will have the opportunity to also collaborate with the other SDK teams (native mobile, Flutter, React), the backend API, Design, and Devrel teams.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance existing React Native SDKs
• Integrating new features from our roadmap (Chat, Video, Feeds)
• Work across multiple teams to provide technical insight on product and feature development
• Be present in collaborations with backend teams to ensure feature parity across SDKs
• Assist with implementation, GitHub issues, and open-source contributions
• Supporting existing clients and prospects through various channels
• Improving SDK documentation, tutorials, and other technical documentation
• Take care of our low-level JavaScript SDKs that allow our customers to integrate with their framework of choice

What Makes This Job Exciting?

• Impact: You'll get to work on products that are going to impact the lives of thousands of engineers and billions of end users
• Visibility: Everything you'll do is public and available on GitHub
• Challenge: You'll deal with complex technical challenges, optimize for performance and ease of use, quickly learn new technologies, and solve technical problems so others don't have to
• Technology: You'll acquire new skills in specific technologies like React Native, WebRTC, Protobuf, Twirp, RxJS, Offline capabilities
• Team: You'll join a seasoned team, proficient in many technologies, establishing solid foundations for all of our JavaScript products

About You

As a team member, you must be excited to grow with Stream. At our core, we are a startup - you should be able to act quickly, thrive in uncertainty, and love pivoting to new technologies.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working with React Native
• Proficiency in English (able to conduct technical and non-technical conversations)
• Experience with one of the following: React Native, React/Angular, Android/iOS, Flutter and (or similar)
• Professional experience with TypeScript, Node, Expo
• Computer Science fundamentals
• Experience with REST API integrations
• Experience with Testing and CI/CD
• A keen eye for UX detail

Bonus Points

• Previous experience building software libraries for other developers
• Experience with OpenAPI / gRPC / protobuf
• Good understanding of reactive systems such as RxJS or other state management libraries
• WebRTC experience
• Build applications on top of databases (eg. SQLite for mobile, ORMs, …)
• Experience working in SaaS startups
• Experience producing technical documentation

Don't fall into all of the job requirements? You don't have to match every bullet as long as you can show us that you can pick things up quickly and master the technical domain you work on.

Our Tech Stack

At Stream, we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimized and available features to our customers. Here is a shortlist of the technology that we currently use in the React Chat and Video SDKs:

• Modern React, TypeScript, RxJS, WebRTC, Protobuf, Twirp, OpenAPI
• React Virtuoso
• Vitest, Jest, Playwright, Ladle
• Node.js, Next.js, Vite

On the backend, we build our services on top of Golang, and we run our global Edge Infrastructure in more than 10 regions around the globe to ensure low-latency connections between our 1+ billion end users.

Who We Are

Stream has a casual, social, and playful culture. We are talented, highly technical, and collaborative which makes Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills. Our team is forward-thinking and diverse and we all have different backgrounds which lends to our creativity and innovation. With offices in Boulder and Amsterdam, our employees represent 15 countries, 11 languages and counting. Our team is passionate about tackling difficult tech problems at scale by creating reusable components that allow product owners to ship apps faster, more securely, and with a better user experience. Our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality; Our goal is to produce deliverable software.

What's In It For You

• A team of exceptional engineers
• The chance to work on OSS projects
• A competitive salary
• Company equity
• A pension scheme
• A generous Learning and Development budget
• Commute expenses to Amsterdam covered or option to use a company bike within the city
• Gym membership of choice covered
• MacBook Pro or another development setup
• Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks
• A generous relocation package
• An office in the heart of Amsterdam
• The opportunity to attend or present to global conferences and meetups
• The possibility to visit our office in Boulder, CO

* These benefits apply to the office in Amsterdam and are adjusted depending on the location

Stream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Hybrid office policy: applicants based (or relocating to) one of our office locations are expected to work according to the applicable local office attendance policy.

Equal opportunity employer statement: Stream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Note for external recruiters: We currently have this role covered and do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.