Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Platform (React Native)

Front; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Front is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join its Client Platform team in San Francisco. Your main responsibilities will include building and maintaining the cross-platform client-side codebase of our React Native-based mobile app, improving user experience, and diving into native code for performance enhancements. You will provide mentorship to others in a fast-paced environment, ensuring Front maintains its position as a leading customer operations platform. Join us to help thousands of companies scale their operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building mobile applications.
• Strong knowledge of React Native and C/C++.
• Ability to mentor and lead other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Front’s cross‑platform client‑side codebase.
• Improve user experience of React Native mobile app.
• Dive down to the native level to improve performance.

Skills

Experience building and maintaining fast, reliable, real-time mobile applications

Experience with C/C++ and React Native

Product minded: committed to building the best user experience

Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and high-growth environment

Understanding the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions

Tools

JNI

Android NDK

Kotlin

TypeScript

Job description

Front is the customer operations platform built for B2B complexity, keeping every team, tool, and customer conversation in sync so companies can scale without losing connection. Front handles the coordination and context behind complex B2B customer relationships, enabling over 9,000 companies to rely on our platform for operational success.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to work on the foundations of our React Native-based mobile app and make Front run great on Android and iOS. In this role, you will be the go‑to specialist for everything React Native-related on the Client Platform team, and you will work with your Electron and web counterparts to improve the app’s performance and enable feature teams at Front to ship cross‑platform.

What will you be doing?

• Build and maintain Front’s cross‑platform client‑side codebase
• Improve the user experience of our React Native mobile app
• Dive down to the native level to improve performance and expose native Android and/or iOS APIs
• Serve as a cross‑functional and cross‑team subject matter expert on the Android and/or iOS ecosystem
• Provide leadership and mentorship to other engineers on the team

What skills and experience do you need?

• Experience building and maintaining fast, reliable, real‑time mobile applications
• Experience with C/C++ and React Native
• Product minded: committed to building the best user experience
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast‑paced, collaborative, and high‑growth environment
• Understand the trade‑offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism

Bonus:

• Experience with JNI, Android NDK, and Kotlin
• Experience with TypeScript

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