Lead Mobile Engineer, React Native (Healthcare)

Zvh; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off 20–35 days

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Baxter is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Mobile) to lead design, development, and evolution of Mercury mobile apps using React Native for iOS and Android. The role focuses on secure voice calling, real-time communications, and ensuring a consistent user experience across platforms.

You will collaborate with backend, web, UX, QA, cybersecurity, regulatory, and product teams, participate in Agile ceremonies, and contribute to design controls and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field with 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including mobile development.
• Proven expertise with React Native and modern JavaScript/TypeScript development.
• Experience developing for iOS and Android platforms.
• Experience integrating mobile apps with backend systems using REST APIs and real-time communications.
• Experience designing or supporting mobile voice calling, VoIP, WebRTC, or comparable real-time communications functionality.
• Experience with mobile audio behavior, call state management, OS permissions, push notifications, and background execution.
• Experience working in regulated environments, preferably healthcare or life sciences.
• Proficiency with GitHub and PostgreSQL and collaborative development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, development, and enhancement of Mercury mobile apps in React Native.
• Design and implement secure voice calling across iOS and Android.
• Integrate Mercury mobile apps with real-time communications services.
• Address mobile voice concerns including call signaling, session lifecycle, audio routing, connectivity changes, permissions, notifications, background behavior, and call reliability.
• Ensure functional parity and a consistent user experience across both mobile platforms.
• Collaborate with backend, web, UX, QA, cybersecurity, regulatory, and product stakeholders.
• Design and implement integrations using REST APIs, WebSockets, SignalR, and real-time voice communication technologies.
• Apply HIPAA-aligned security practices for data handling, authentication, voice communications, messaging, and notifications.
• Participate in Agile development ceremonies and work tracking using JIRA and Confluence.
• Contribute to design controls, requirements traceability, verification, and validation documentation using JAMA.
• Perform rigorous code reviews and champion mobile engineering best practices.
• Mentor engineers and raise the overall quality and consistency of mobile development.
• Support production readiness, monitoring, troubleshooting, and issue resolution in live healthcare environments.

Skills

React Native

JavaScript/TypeScript

iOS & Android

REST APIs

Real-time communications

VoIP/WebRTC

HIPAA security

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

GitHub

PostgreSQL

Job description

Baxter is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Mobile) to lead design, development, and evolution of Mercury mobile apps using React Native for iOS and Android. The role focuses on secure voice calling, real-time communications, and ensuring a consistent user experience across platforms.

You will collaborate with backend, web, UX, QA, cybersecurity, regulatory, and product teams, participate in Agile ceremonies, and contribute to design controls and documentation.