Senior React Native Mobile Engineer | Hybrid/Remote

Angel; Provo (UT); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Angel Studios is seeking a senior mobile engineer to own and ship features across our iOS/Android apps, focusing on discovery, playback, and engagement. You will push the boundaries of streaming quality, load performance, and offline experiences while maintaining a scalable React Native codebase.

In this role, you will collaborate with product and backend teams, drive architectural decisions, and contribute to OTA updates and CI/CD workflows to ship quickly and safely.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building mobile applications.
• 3+ years of React Native experience in production environments.
• Strong experience with TypeScript and modern frontend architecture.
• Proven track record of shipping consumer-facing app features.
• Experience working on apps with real users at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end – Take full ownership of major areas of the Angel Studios mobile app, from technical design through launch and iteration, across discovery, playback, and user engagement.
• Drive streaming excellence at scale – Deliver a seamless, high-quality playback experience with fast startup times, minimal buffering, adaptive streaming, and resilient offline playback.
• Build best-in-class discovery and engagement experiences – Implement intuitive browsing, search, recommendations, and personalized content experiences that rival top-tier streaming platforms.
• Build for performance and reliability – Write scalable, maintainable React Native (Expo + TypeScript) code that performs across a wide range of devices and network conditions, and contribute to the app’s architectural direction.
• Leverage modern mobile delivery systems – Work within and improve our Expo-based workflows, including over-the-air (OTA) updates, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes so we ship quickly and safely.
• Ship fast and iterate constantly – Build features like downloads, offline mode, notifications, and membership flows through rapid experimentation and continuous iteration.
• Solve complex mobile challenges – Tackle issues across video playback, background downloads, offline sync, push notifications, and app lifecycle management.
• Measure and improve what matters – Instrument and track key metrics (startup time, buffering rate, crash-free sessions, engagement, retention) and use data to guide your decisions.
• Raise the bar through code – Conduct high-quality code reviews, share knowledge generously, and help teammates grow while staying deeply hands-on.
• Improve how the team works – Contribute to better tooling, testing, CI/CD, and shared patterns that make everyone more productive.

Skills

React Native

TypeScript

Ownership

Performance optimization

Collaboration

Tools

Expo

OTA updates

CI/CD pipelines

Swift

Kotlin

Job description

Angel Studios is seeking a senior mobile engineer to own and ship features across our iOS/Android apps, focusing on discovery, playback, and engagement. You will push the boundaries of streaming quality, load performance, and offline experiences while maintaining a scalable React Native codebase.

In this role, you will collaborate with product and backend teams, drive architectural decisions, and contribute to OTA updates and CI/CD workflows to ship quickly and safely.