Senior Mobile Engineer - React Native (iOS/Android)

Kelly Services; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners in Baltimore is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to drive development of our iOS and Android experiences using React Native. This role partners with Product, Design, Data, Backend, and newsroom stakeholders to ship fast, reliable, and engaging mobile features.

You will own major mobile features from planning through release, mentor peers, and contribute to mobile architecture, CI/CD, and performance optimization.

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

5+ years experience

React Native

JavaScript

TypeScript

iOS

Android

REST APIs

CI/CD

Git workflows

Communication

Tools

Redux

Context API

Expo

AWS

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners in Baltimore is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to drive development of our iOS and Android experiences using React Native. This role partners with Product, Design, Data, Backend, and newsroom stakeholders to ship fast, reliable, and engaging mobile features.

You will own major mobile features from planning through release, mentor peers, and contribute to mobile architecture, CI/CD, and performance optimization.