Founding Mobile Engineer — React Native & AI

BAM Ventures; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and early-equ

Health, vision, and dental benefits +

ClassPass membership

$50/month mobile stipend

$50/month internet stipend

Job summary

Nectar Social is building the AI-native social operating system for authentic brand-community experiences, based in Palo Alto. We are seeking a Founding Mobile Engineer to own the mobile platform from the ground up, defining architecture and delivering AI-powered mobile experiences that connect brands with customers.

This highly autonomous role collaborates with product, design, and leadership to ship features and set engineering standards for iOS and Android, while maintaining reliability and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with React Native.
• Proven track record shipping production mobile apps.
• Strong knowledge of mobile architecture, navigation, state management, and platform-specific considerations.
• Ability to work across the stack in a fast-moving startup environment.
• High ownership mindset with a bias toward action and comfort operating in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Own the mobile platform end-to-end, architecting, building, and shipping our React Native application across iOS and Android.
• Build AI-powered mobile experiences that surface insights, power real-time agent interactions, and bring Nectar's AI capabilities to mobile.
• Establish mobile architecture patterns, shared components, testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and performance standards.
• Integrate with social platform APIs such as TikTok, Meta, and Instagram, as well as e-commerce systems like Shopify.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and founders to shape both the product experience and technical implementation.
• Set a high bar for reliability and performance through monitoring, error tracking, and optimization.

Skills

React Native

Production mobile apps

APIs integration

Ownership mindset

Ambiguity handling

Job description

Nectar Social is building the AI-native social operating system for authentic brand-community experiences, based in Palo Alto. We are seeking a Founding Mobile Engineer to own the mobile platform from the ground up, defining architecture and delivering AI-powered mobile experiences that connect brands with customers.

This highly autonomous role collaborates with product, design, and leadership to ship features and set engineering standards for iOS and Android, while maintaining reliability and