Sr Software Engineer - Mobile (React Native)

Playlist; United States; On-site; USD 151,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Playlist is seeking a senior React Native engineer to build and evolve cross-platform mobile experiences for iOS and Android. You will partner with Product, Design, and QA to take ideas from concept to release, delivering high-quality interfaces and performant apps.

You will work across networking, on-device storage, and data layers, while leveraging AI capabilities to accelerate delivery and improve product capabilities. Strong collaboration and ownership are essential in this role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and shipping cross-platform mobile applications with React Native.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript and JavaScript; solid language fundamentals.
• Deep experience with the New Architecture (Fabric, TurboModules, JSI) and Hermes in React Native.
• Experience with Expo toolchain (Expo Router, EAS Build/Submit/Update) or equivalent setup.
• Experience shipping to iOS and Android; understand platform differences and native code when needed.
• Experience consuming GraphQL APIs and/or REST; data-fetch patterns (TanStack Query).
• Strong debugging and testing skills across unit/integration/UI.
• Familiar with release pipelines: App Store Connect, TestFlight, code signing.
• Clear communicator; able to collaborate across roles and adopt AI-adjacent tooling.
• AI-native mindset to accelerate quality and output.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve cross-platform mobile experiences using React Native for iOS and Android.
• Partner with Product, Design, and QA to take ideas from concept to production with quality and UX focus.
• Design and implement client-side networking against GraphQL/REST APIs and on-device data layers.
• Ensure reliable data flows, offline support, and robust crash reporting/observability.
• Leverage AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery, while maintaining correctness and UX quality.
• Maintain and improve test suites across unit, integration, and UI tests.
• Contribute to engineering culture with autonomous ownership and strong collaboration.

Skills

React Native

TypeScript/JavaScript

Expo toolchain

iOS/Android native bridging

GraphQL/REST APIs

On-device persistence

Testing (unit/integration/UI)

Release pipeline (App Store/Play Store

AI-assisted development

Communication & collaboration

Tools

Xcode

Android Studio

Gradle

CocoaPods

TestFlight

App Store Connect

Sentry/Crashlytics

Flipper

Jest

React Native Testing Library

Detox

Maestro

TanStack Query

Apollo Client

AsyncStorage/MMKV/SQLite

Job description

• Framework & UI: React Native (New Architecture, Hermes), Expo/Expo Router, React Navigation, Reanimated, Gesture Handler, NativeWind/styled-components, design tokens/component libraries, accessibility

About the Company

At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections.

The Role You’ll Play

You’ll build and evolve cross-platform mobile experiences at Playlist with React Native, shipping customer-facing features to iOS and Android across our consumer apps, from the interface down through networking and on-device data layers. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and QA to take ideas from concept to production with high quality, reliability, and strong UX. You’ll also operate at the edge of what’s possible by leveraging AI (LLMs and agentic tooling) to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and push product capabilities forward.

• Partner with Product and Design to deliver features from ideation through App Store and Play Store release, iterating based on feedback and outcomes
• Own mobile features end-to-end across iOS and Android: UI, state and view logic, client networking, local persistence, and production rollout
• Build polished, accessible interfaces in React Native with a strong focus on performance, responsiveness, and UX quality on both platforms
• Design and integrate client-side networking against GraphQL/REST APIs, collaborating on schemas, contracts, authentication, and authorization
• Build reliable data flows on device: persistence, caching, background tasks, offline support, and sync
• Drive engineering excellence and operational health through automated testing, thoughtful code reviews, and strong crash reporting and observability, strengthening logging, error handling, resilience, and release readiness while identifying risks early
• Use AI effectively to move faster without sacrificing correctness: AI-assisted debugging, test generation, accessibility checks, refactors, and design/UX iteration
• Help foster a collaborative team culture that values autonomy, accountability, and impact

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years building and shipping cross-platform mobile applications with React Native for large-scale consumer or SaaS products
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript and JavaScript, including strong fundamentals in the language and ecosystem
• Deep experience with modern React Native, including the New Architecture (Fabric, TurboModules, JSI) and the Hermes engine, plus core React patterns (hooks, composition, state management, render performance)
• Experience with the Expo toolchain (Expo Router, EAS Build/Submit/Update) or comparable bare-workflow and native build setups
• Solid experience shipping to both iOS and Android, including an understanding of platform differences and when to drop down to native code
• Comfort writing or maintaining native modules and bridging to native code (Swift/Objective‑C, Kotlin/Java) when the situation calls for it
• Experience consuming GraphQL APIs (schema-driven development, client caching, pagination patterns) and/or well-designed REST APIs, including client data-fetching patterns (e.g., TanStack Query)
• Solid understanding of on-device persistence (e.g., AsyncStorage, MMKV, SQLite, WatermelonDB, or Realm), offline-first patterns, and networked-client fundamentals (timeouts/retries, idempotency, offline handling, graceful degradation)
• Familiarity with app architecture patterns (MVVM, TCA, or similar) and modular, testable codebases
• Solid debugging skills; comfortable using Xcode Instruments (Time Profiler, Allocations, Leaks) and the Xcode debugger
• Experience with testing across the stack: unit, integration, and UI (e.g., XCTest, XCUITest, snapshot testing)
• Experience with the release pipeline: App Store Connect, TestFlight, code signing, and provisioning
• Clear communicator who collaborates effectively across roles and working styles
• AI-native builder mindset with strong ownership and judgment: leverage AI to amplify output and quality, and bring (or quickly build) experience with AI‑adjacent systems like evals, guardrails, prompt/tool design, and agentic workflows

Tools and systems

This role is cross-platform mobile with React Native, with ownership across product experiences, client services, and on-device data. You do not need to have used every tool here, but you should be comfortable learning new technologies and choosing the right approach for the problem.

• Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, with Swift/Objective‑C and Kotlin/Java for native modules
• Framework & UI: React Native (New Architecture, Hermes), Expo/Expo Router, React Navigation, Reanimated, Gesture Handler, NativeWind/styled-components, design tokens/component libraries, accessibility
• State & data: Redux Toolkit/Zustand/Jotai, TanStack Query, GraphQL (e.g., Apollo Client) and/or REST, AsyncStorage/MMKV/SQLite/WatermelonDB, secure storage (Keychain/Keystore)
• Runtime & tooling: Metro, Hermes, Xcode, Android Studio, Gradle, CocoaPods, monorepos (Nx/Turborepo), CI/CD
• Testing: unit/integration/e2e testing (Jest, React Native Testing Library, Detox/Maestro) plus native unit/UI tests
• Release & distribution: EAS Build/Submit/Update, Fastlane, App Store Connect, Google Play Console, TestFlight, over-the-air updates (Expo Updates/CodePush), code signing, provisioning
• Observability: crash reporting and monitoring (Sentry/Crashlytics/New Relic or similar), React Native DevTools/Flipper, performance profiling
• AI/LLM tooling & quality/safety: Cursor/Copilot-style IDE assistants; Claude Code/Codex-style CLI assistants; MCPs; tool/function calling; agent frameworks; prompt/version management; evals; regression suites; hallucination/guardrail strategies; and data/privacy considerations
• Engineering Practices: automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD, observability, on-call, incident management, with AI-accelerated workflows where appropriate

It is the Company's intent to pay all Team Members competitive wages and salaries that are fair and equitable. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and work location. The goal of Company's compensation program is to be transparent, attract potential employees, meet the needs of all current employees, and encourage Team Members to stay with our organization.

The base salary range for this position in the United States is $151,275 to $251,200. The total compensation package may also include a performance bonus, benefits, and other applicable incentive compensation plans.

The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We highly value diversity at our company and encourage people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other protected characteristics.

Note: This description outlines key responsibilities but isn’t intended to cover every task or duty. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed to support the team and business goals.