Senior Mobile Tech Lead – React Native & DeFi (Remote)

Injective Foundation; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Remote-friendly work environment

Unlimited PTO

Equipment

Home Office Stipend

Opportunity to work on blockchain tech

Job summary

Injective Labs is seeking a Senior / Tech Lead Mobile App Developer to own the mobile app, mainly React Native, and drive architectural decisions, performance, and reliability across iOS and Android.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to deliver fast, scalable DeFi trading experiences and mentor peers while maintaining engineering standards and a high bar for quality.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience building production mobile applications.
• Experience building fintech, or trading applications.
• Experience with blockchain, Web3, or DeFi.
• Strong professional experience with React Native, React, and TypeScript.
• Experience owning or leading the technical development of a production mobile application.
• Strong understanding of mobile application architecture, design patterns, state management, performance, testing, and maintainability.
• Experience making architectural decisions and driving technical projects from design through production.
• Strong experience integrating mobile applications with backend APIs and services.
• Experience with Node.js.
• Strong experience working with REST APIs.
• Experience with real-time data and communication technologies such as gRPC, SSE, or WebSockets is a strong plus.
• Experience debugging complex production issues and optimizing mobile application performance.
• Experience with mobile CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and release processes.
• Experience publishing and maintaining applications on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
• Ability to provide technical direction and constructive feedback to other engineers.
• Comfortable taking ownership and operating autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly with both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Must be fluent in English.
• Based in the EU or New York timezone.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of our React Native mobile application, driving its architecture, scalability, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability across iOS and Android.
• Lead the full engineering lifecycle of mobile features, from technical design and hands-on implementation through testing, release, monitoring, and iteration.
• Build complex and high-impact functionality using React Native and TypeScript while defining and maintaining engineering standards, patterns, and best practices the codebase and team.
• Make key technical and architectural decisions, balancing product requirements, development speed, scalability, and technical debt, while proactively identifying and driving improvements to the mobile architecture and development processes.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions, including API design, integrations, real-time data flows, and supporting infrastructure.
• Own mobile release processes and application health, including App Store and Google Play releases, monitoring, issue triage, and investigation of complex bugs and production incidents to ensure reliable long-term fixes.
• Stay up to date with modern mobile development practices and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools when relevant.

Skills

React Native

React

TypeScript

Mobile architecture

Team leadership

API design

Node.js

Mobile CI/CD

Performance optimization

Tools

REST APIs

WebSockets

gRPC

Job description

Injective Labs is seeking a Senior / Tech Lead Mobile App Developer to own the mobile app, mainly React Native, and drive architectural decisions, performance, and reliability across iOS and Android.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to deliver fast, scalable DeFi trading experiences and mentor peers while maintaining engineering standards and a high bar for quality.