Senior React Native Engineer — Hybrid (Relocation Support)

Showcify; United States; On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Skydio is seeking a Senior React Native Engineer to lead development of real-time, high-impact mobile applications for first responders, drone pilots, and the public. You will shape a cross-platform app, balancing performance and usability under time pressure in the field.

You will own end-to-end features, collaborate with autonomy and cloud teams, and decide when to leverage native modules for maximum efficiency, while maintaining robust release processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and shipping customer-facing mobile applications, with substantial depth in React Native.
• Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
• Strong development skills in Swift and/or Kotlin, with real experience writing or maintaining native modules.
• Proven ability to design systems that scale for performance, reliability, and usability.
• Experience building real-time, data-intensive features and integrating with external APIs and services.
• Strong product intuition and empathy for end users operating in high-stakes environments.
• Demonstrated experience working across teams to take complex, integrated features from concept to production.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and a bias toward action.

Responsibilities

• Innovate on UI/UX for Skydio's new cross-platform mobile app.
• Build video- and map-based experiences for a range of user personas, from trained pilots to first-time public users.
• Improve app performance through native code versus TypeScript—knowing when to drop into Swift or Kotlin and when not to.
• Establish patterns the app is built on: shared components, navigation and state management conventions, testing strategy, CI/CD, and performance budgets.
• Own features end to end, from early prototype through customer rollout, with release management, feature flagging, and observability in place.
• Enable first responders to run complex multi-drone operations with ease.
• Collaborate with the autonomy and cloud teams, iterating on features from field feedback.

Skills

React Native

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

Swift/Kotlin

Tools

Swift

Kotlin

Job description

Skydio is seeking a Senior React Native Engineer to lead development of real-time, high-impact mobile applications for first responders, drone pilots, and the public. You will shape a cross-platform app, balancing performance and usability under time pressure in the field.

You will own end-to-end features, collaborate with autonomy and cloud teams, and decide when to leverage native modules for maximum efficiency, while maintaining robust release processes.