Founding Mobile Engineer (React Native)

Surgecrypto; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Surge is hiring a Founding Mobile Engineer to architect and build a high-performance crypto trading app from the ground up. You will own the mobile experience, from inception to trade confirmation, in a fast-moving, self-funded team.

As the first front-end engineer, you will define foundational architecture for the React Native app and ensure extreme performance, reliability, and rapid App Store deployment, supporting tens of thousands of users and hundreds of millions in daily volume.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in mobile engineering.
• Experience building production mobile apps.
• Strong experience with React Native and mobile app architecture.

Responsibilities

• Architect the entire React Native mobile app from zero.
• Build a best-in-class trading experience (spot + perps) optimized for speed and low latency.
• Ship the app from 0 to App Store on a rapid timeline.
• Ensure the app scales to handle 25–50K+ daily active users and $100M+ daily volume.
• Own production reliability end-to-end and automate release pipelines.

Skills

React Native

Mobile engineering

Performance optimization

Frontend architecture

6+ years experience

Tools

React Native

App Store submission

Job description

This company is building the best way to trade crypto on your phone. What Robinhood did to stock trading a decade ago, they are doing to crypto trading today.

Three mega trends are converging to create a unique opportunity to build the greatest trading product ever created:

Volume moving from centralized exchanges to decentralized exchanges/self custodial solutions

Crypto traders moving from trading on desktop to mobile

The tokenization of everything, including stocks and commodities

Imagine trading literally anything from one app on your phone, instantly, with great execution, from anywhere in the world.

About this role

We are looking for a Founding Mobile Engineer with 6+ years of experience to architect and build a high-performance crypto trading app from the ground up. You'll be the first and only front-end engineer, owning everything the user touches, from cold start to trade confirmation, at a self-funded, fast-moving team that scaled their last product to $5.4M revenue in year one with just two people.

What will you be doing?

Architect the entire React Native mobile app from zero, making all foundational technical decisions

Build a best-in-class trading experience (spot + perps) optimized for speed and low latency across all interactions

Ship the app from 0 to App Store on a rapid timeline, working closely with the founder and a dedicated UI/UX designer

Ensure the app scales to handle 25–50K+ daily active users and $100M+ daily volume with no performance degradation

Own production reliability end-to-end, ix critical bugs the hour they land and automate release pipelines

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