Senior React Native Mobile Engineer – Remote-friendly, Polished UI

Yaay; København; Hybrid; DKK 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Yaay is building a travel and leisure app with a focus on social planning and personalized recommendations. We seek a React Native engineer to elevate the Expo-based app, delivering a polished, native feel and delightful interactions.

You will work closely with the founders and designer in a flat, autonomous team, reporting to the CTO, with a Copenhagen base and remote-friendly overlap. Ideal candidates have extensive React Native experience, a knack for polish, and a genuine passion for travel.

Qualifications

• Extensive React Native experience and a background building native mobile apps.
• Polish in animations and haptics for a delightful user experience.
• Able to work autonomously from loose direction, not a fully scoped spec.
• Passion for travel and consumer apps; comfort with fast-paced startup life.

Responsibilities

• Ship a polished, native-feeling app with attention to motion and tactile details.
• Turn napkin sketches into real shipped features.
• Explore multiple routes to a feature while keeping focus on delivering to users.
• Make design decisions with the user in mind and advocate for the best UX.

Skills

React Native

Mobile development

Autonomy

UI polish

Tools

Swift/Objective-C

Kotlin/Java

Expo

Job description

Yaay is building a travel and leisure app with a focus on social planning and personalized recommendations. We seek a React Native engineer to elevate the Expo-based app, delivering a polished, native feel and delightful interactions.

You will work closely with the founders and designer in a flat, autonomous team, reporting to the CTO, with a Copenhagen base and remote-friendly overlap. Ideal candidates have extensive React Native experience, a knack for polish, and a genuine passion for travel.