Founding Mobile Engineer (RN) for AI-Powered Commerce

Nectar Social; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and competitive compensation

Health, vision, and dental benefits +

401(k) match

ClassPass membership

$50/month mobile stipend

$50/month internet stipend

Housing stipend (Palo Alto)

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Nectar Social, a San Francisco Bay Area startup, is hiring a Founding Mobile Engineer to own and define the mobile experience from the ground up. You will architect the platform end-to-end and ship AI-powered features that bring Nectar's capabilities to brand teams and customers across iOS and Android.

The role offers high autonomy, direct influence on product direction, and close collaboration with product, design, and the founders to establish engineering standards in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the mobile platform end-to-end, architecting, building, and shipping React Native app for iOS and Android.
• Build AI-powered mobile experiences that surface insights and enable real-time interactions.
• Establish mobile architecture, components, testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and performance standards.
• Integrate with social platform APIs (TikTok, Meta, Instagram) and Shopify.
• Collaborate with product, design, and founders to shape product and technical direction.
• Set high reliability and performance standards with monitoring and optimization.

Skills

React Native

Mobile development

API integration

CI/CD pipelines

Performance optimization

Ownership mindset

Tools

Shopify API

TikTok API

Meta/Instagram APIs

GoogleCloud/AWS

Job description

Nectar Social, a San Francisco Bay Area startup, is hiring a Founding Mobile Engineer to own and define the mobile experience from the ground up. You will architect the platform end-to-end and ship AI-powered features that bring Nectar's capabilities to brand teams and customers across iOS and Android.

The role offers high autonomy, direct influence on product direction, and close collaboration with product, design, and the founders to establish engineering standards in a fast-moving startup.