Senior Mobile Engineer

Motion Recruitment; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to build and evolve our mobile experience for readers on iOS and Android, using React Native. You will shape a fast, reliable mobile product in partnership with Product, Design, Data, Backend, and newsroom stakeholders.

You’ll own significant features, optimize performance, and contribute to mobile architecture and release processes while mentoring teammates.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building production mobile apps with React Native.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Experience developing for both iOS and Android environments.
• Understanding of mobile app lifecycle, deployment, app store processes, and release management.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs and working with modern backend systems.
• Familiarity with state management patterns such as Redux, Context API, or similar approaches.
• Strong understanding of mobile performance optimization, debugging, testing, and observability.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, design, data, and editorial teams.
• A product-minded approach to engineering and a genuine interest in building excellent user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain cross-platform mobile applications using React Native.
• Own significant mobile features from technical planning through implementation, release, and iteration.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to translate user needs and mobile UX patterns into polished, accessible experiences.
• Partner with Backend and Data teams to integrate APIs, analytics, personalization, and engagement tools.
• Improve mobile performance, debugging, monitoring, and production reliability.
• Contribute to mobile architecture, engineering standards, CI/CD practices, and release processes.
• Troubleshoot production issues and use data, observability, and user feedback to improve the app experience.
• Mentor other engineers and help raise the quality of mobile development across the team.

Skills

React Native

JavaScript

TypeScript

Cross‑platform mobile

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Git

Performance optimization

Observability

Team collaboration

Tools

Expo

Job description

Senior Mobile Engineer

Baltimore, MD

About the Job

We are seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to help build and evolve our mobile experience across iOS and Android.

This is a high-impact role for an experienced React Native engineer who wants to shape a meaningful consumer product from the inside. You will work closely with Product, Design, Data, Backend Engineering, and newsroom stakeholders to create a fast, reliable, engaging, and intuitive mobile experience for readers.

You will help define how mobile supports personalization, subscriptions, notifications, audience engagement, performance, accessibility, and long-term product growth. The ideal candidate is both a strong hands-on engineer and a thoughtful product partner who cares deeply about user experience, technical quality, and mission-driven work.

***This role is not eligible for relocation, visa sponsorship, or fully remote work.***

What You’ll Build

In this role, you will help create mobile experiences that make local journalism more accessible, useful, and habit-forming. Your work may include:

• Developing new reader-facing features in React Native for iOS and Android.

• Improving app performance, reliability, responsiveness, and stability.

• Building mobile-first experiences for content discovery, personalization, notifications, and reader engagement.

• Integrating with APIs, authentication systems, analytics platforms, push notification systems, and third-party services.

• Supporting experimentation, feature flagging, observability, and release management.

• Creating strong foundations for a scalable mobile platform as the product grows.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, test, and maintain cross-platform mobile applications using React Native.

• Own significant mobile features from technical planning through implementation, release, and iteration.

• Collaborate with Product and Design to translate user needs and mobile UX patterns into polished, accessible experiences.

• Partner with Backend and Data teams to integrate APIs, analytics, personalization, and engagement tools.

• Improve mobile performance, debugging, monitoring, and production reliability.

• Contribute to mobile architecture, engineering standards, CI/CD practices, and release processes.

• Troubleshoot production issues and use data, observability, and user feedback to improve the app experience.

• Mentor other engineers and help raise the quality of mobile development across the team.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience building production mobile applications with React Native.

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.

• Experience developing for both iOS and Android environments.

• Understanding of mobile app lifecycle, deployment, app store processes, and release management.

• Experience integrating RESTful APIs and working with modern backend systems.

• Familiarity with state management patterns such as Redux, Context API, or similar approaches.

• Strong understanding of mobile performance optimization, debugging, testing, and observability.

• Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, design, data, and editorial teams.

• A product-minded approach to engineering and a genuine interest in building excellent user experiences.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Expo and modern React Native tooling.

• Experience with analytics, engagement platforms, push notifications, or in-app messaging.

• Familiarity with experimentation, A/B testing, personalization, or subscription products.

• Knowledge of mobile accessibility, security, and performance best practices.

• Experience in media, news, consumer subscription, marketplace, or other high-scale digital product environments.

• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures or AWS-based ecosystems.

What Success Looks Like

In this role, success means helping deliver a mobile experience that is fast, stable, intuitive, and valuable to readers. You will help strengthen the technical foundation of our mobile products, ship meaningful features, improve app quality, and contribute to a product culture that values experimentation, accessibility, performance, and reader trust.

Salary Range

$140,000 - $150,000. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors, including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. This role is not eligible for corporate bonus opportunity. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equitable across the board.

Our Core Values

• Do what’s right. Honesty, morality, respect and the mission guide our actions and decisions. By doing the right thing, we inspire others to believe.

• Work together. We collaborate to create something special. Together we challenge assumptions, trust each other, take risks, and foster transparent and direct communication.

• Listen to be heard. Our stories are trustworthy. They are inspired by and created for our readers. Their story is our story. Communities are at the center of our journalism, and everything we do.

• Deliver impactful results. Acting as one accountable team and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, we deliver bold and innovative results. We act fast, execute and learn. We celebrate great outcomes.

• Be inclusive. We celebrate the uniqueness of each individual and act by curating a culture that leverages diverse perspectives as the key to fulfilling our mission.