Founding Mobile Engineer, React Native — AI-Driven UX

Nectar; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental benefits +

401(k) match

ClassPass membership

Mobile stipend

Internet stipend

Job summary

Nectar is seeking a Founding Mobile Engineer to own and define the mobile experience. You will architect and build the mobile platform from the ground up, influencing product direction and engineering standards, with close collaboration with product, design, and leadership.

You will ship AI-powered mobile experiences across iOS and Android using React Native, set architecture patterns, and ensure reliability and performance in a fast-moving startup environment with strong ownership and ambiguity

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in React Native.
• Proven track record of shipping high-quality production mobile applications.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture, navigation patterns, state management, and platform-specific considerations.
• Experience integrating with external APIs and building real-time, data-intensive features.
• Comfortable working across the stack in a fast-moving startup environment.
• High ownership mindset with a bias toward action and comfort operating in ambiguity.
• Strong product intuition and interest in shaping what gets built, not just how it gets built.

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 and power real-time agent interactions.
• Establish mobile architecture patterns, shared components, testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and performance standards.
• Integrate with social platform APIs and e-commerce systems such as Shopify.
• Collaborate with product, design, and founders to shape both product experience and technical implementation.
• Set a high bar for reliability and performance through monitoring and optimization.

Skills

React Native

Mobile architecture

APIs integration

Real-time features

Ownership & initiative

Product intuition

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

CI/CD

Testing strategies

Job description

Nectar is seeking a Founding Mobile Engineer to own and define the mobile experience. You will architect and build the mobile platform from the ground up, influencing product direction and engineering standards, with close collaboration with product, design, and leadership.

You will ship AI-powered mobile experiences across iOS and Android using React Native, set architecture patterns, and ensure reliability and performance in a fast-moving startup environment with strong ownership and ambiguity