Mobile Developer (React Native)

C4Media Inc.; Toronto; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Travel opportunities

Education budget

Birthday day off

Paid time off

Job summary

C4Media, Inc. (HQ Toronto, Canada) is seeking a Mobile Developer (contractor) to join a fully remote, global, and friendly team. You will build and maintain mobile features end-to-end for iOS and Android, from API integration to UI rendering.

The role requires 3-5 years of mobile development, strong React Native skills, Redux, and experience shipping apps to production. You will collaborate with backend and product teams, manage performance, and contribute to a robust, scalable mobile product.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of professional mobile development experience.
• Strong proficiency in React Native.
• Experience integrating APIs (REST).
• Experience with mobile state management (Redux).
• Good understanding of mobile performance considerations.
• Familiarity with iOS and Android platform differences.
• Experience shipping apps to production.
• Portfolio required: Examples of shipped apps, repositories, or concrete feature work.

Responsibilities

• Implement Mobile Features: Build complete features in React Native, from API integration to UI rendering.
• Data & State Handling: Consume REST APIs, manage async data flows, caching, and error states.
• Cross-Platform Delivery: Ensure features behave consistently across iOS and Android.
• Production Readiness: Handle loading states, retries, offline scenarios, and edge cases.
• Collaboration: Work with backend and product teams to implement requirements accurately and efficiently.
• Maintain Codebase: Improve existing code, refactor when needed, and keep technical debt under control.

Skills

React Native

Redux

REST APIs

Mobile performance

iOS & Android

Production deployments

Portfolio required

Job description

C4Media, Inc. (HQ Toronto, Canada. Private. Established in 2007), is seeking a Mobile Developer (contractor) to join our fully remote, global, fun, and friendly team.

As a Mobile Developer, you will focus onexecution and delivery, building and maintaining mobile features end-to-end-from consuming APIs and managing state to rendering polished, production-ready UI on iOS and Android.

What You'll Do

• Implement Mobile Features: Build complete features in React Native, from API integration to UI rendering.
• Data & State Handling: Consume REST APIs, manage async data flows, caching, and error states.
• Cross-Platform Delivery: Ensure features behave consistently across iOS and Android.
• Production Readiness: Handle loading states, retries, offline scenarios, and edge cases.
• Collaboration: Work with backend and product teams to implement requirements accurately and efficiently.
• Maintain Codebase: Improve existing code, refactor when needed, and keep technical debt under control.

Job Requirements

Professional Experience, Skills & Education:

• 3-5 years of professional mobile development experience
• Strong proficiency inReact Native
• Experience integrating APIs (REST)
• Experience with mobile state management (Redux)
• Good understanding of mobile performance considerations
• Familiarity with iOS and Android platform differences
• Experience shipping apps to production
• Portfolio required: Examples of shipped apps, repositories, or concrete feature work

Setup Requirements:

• Able to work in a full-time remote position
• Reside in Europe
• Able to work as an independent contractor
• Able to work in overlap with our core global office hours (9 AM - 1 PM EST)
• Quiet home office and ability to work comfortably from home
• Reliable infrastructure: access to high-speed internet and a modern computer
• Able and willing to travel to locations in the USA or Europe 1-3 times per year, with an average stay of 4-8 days, to attend our software conferences and annual company meetings
• Comfortable working with API contracts and backend schemas
• Ability to reason about data models and transform data for UI needs
• Handle authentication flows, tokens, and secure storage
• Implement pagination, background refresh, and optimistic updates
• Debug issues across network, state, and UI layers

Nice to Have:

• Experience with offline-first or poor-network scenarios
• Familiarity with background tasks, push notifications, or deep linking
• Experience with React Native performance tools
• Understanding of basic backend concepts (queues, retries, rate limits)
• Experience working in codebases shared by multiple developers

What Makes You Successful Here

You are someone who:

• Focuses on shipping working features, not just writing components
• Thinks in terms of data flow, edge cases, and failure scenarios
• Can implement a feature from API docs to UI without hand-holding
• Communicates clearly when requirements are unclear or incomplete
• Balances speed with long-term maintainability

What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate:

• Is comfortable sitting between frontend and backend concerns
• Can take a spec and turn it into a complete mobile feature
• Understands that most bugs live in data flow and edge cases
• Is pragmatic about architecture and tooling
• Takes responsibility for the stability of what they ship

Why work for C4Media:

• Work from home - always: We are a remote-first and remote-always team who has been successfully operating on a work-from-home basis since 2007. And we have no intention of changing that.
• Travel the world: C4Media offers an opportunity to travel 1 - 3 times a year at our expense to NYC, SF, London, and other fun, global locations for conferences & team building. We also got you covered to add a sightseeing day to the end of the trip!
• Take care of each other:We look out for one another and prioritize respect, fairness, support, and well-being. Check out our core values on our careers page.
• Learn something new: C4Media's culture is one of learning & mastering. Everyone has a training and education budget for professional growth every year and is encouraged to use it.
• Make friends across the world: Be a part of a leading, fast-growing international company and build a network of international friends and colleagues for life.
• Support wellbeing: In an effort to make physical activity more readily accessible, we offer staff an annual subsidy towards fitness and wellness.
• Generous paid time off: In addition to 25 paid days off in the 1st year and 30 paid days off in every subsequent year, we provide 1 paid day off for birthdays (or a similar special day) and 2 paid days for continuing education.