React Native Engineer

CrowdDoing; Remote; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

An innovative health app initiative is seeking volunteers to develop a groundbreaking application aimed at promoting public health through nature engagement. You will work on building features that help track time spent in nature, integrating mobile functionalities to visualize wellness metrics. The ideal candidate should have experience in React Native and a passion for social innovation. This role requires a commitment of 4-21 hours per week and is deeply rooted in service-learning and community benefit.

Qualifications

• Experience with React Native (Expo or Bare) is essential.
• Familiarity with collaborative coding processes is expected.
• Comfortable integrating REST or GraphQL APIs.

Responsibilities

• Develop React Native components for iOS and Android.
• Implement device-level feature integrations for user tracking.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for design and functionality.

Skills

React Native

Mobile debugging

Git

REST integration

GraphQL integration

Job description

Building Technology to Heal People & Planet | CrowdDoing.world

You are the architect of digital pathways back to the living world.

Your code is more than functionality—it’s a catalyst for health, healing, and human reconnection with nature. You’ll help build Nature Counter, a revolutionary public health app that empowers individuals and communities to thrive by tracking and increasing time spent in nature. With each commit, you’re helping to shape a world where wellbeing, resilience, and biophilia are mainstream.

🌍 The Mission: Why This Role Matters

Imagine a future where a simple app guides people away from chronic stress and screen addiction and into urban parks, forests, beaches, and community green spaces.

Nature Counter is designed to be a “step counter for time in nature.” Scientific literature shows that at least 120 minutes per week immersed in nature can significantly reduce stress, depression, and blood pressure—and boost cognitive functioning, creativity, and sleep.

With your help, this tool becomes a GPS-integrated wellness tracker, social motivator, and citizen science platform—guiding individuals and institutions to make nature immersion part of public health and urban design strategies.

🧩 What You'll Do (Co-Creatively)

• Develop React Native components to support cross-platform (iOS & Android) onboarding, geolocation tracking, streaks, nature-time goals, and social encouragement features.
• Implement integrations with device-level features like GPS, notifications, and basic health APIs to help users visualize their “nature dose.”
• Work with UX, functional medicine, public health, and nature immersion researchers to translate evidence-based wellbeing strategies into intuitive design and interactions.
• Solve real-world edge cases: offline access, urban vs. rural park detection, accessibility for mobility constraints, etc.
• Participate in and support a collaborative, learning-driven engineering culture—code reviews, documentation, architectural clarity, and respectful dialogue.

🧠 What You'll Learn & Master

This role is designed as service learning and Ikigai-aligned mastery development:

• React Native mastery for socially impactful apps
• Systems thinking: see how your work interconnects with functional medicine, environmental science, behavior change psychology, and urban planning
• Agile remote collaboration: gain real-world experience in interdisciplinary global teams
• Biophilic design & regeneration technology: use your skills to regenerate health and wellbeing at scale

Required:

• Experience with React Native (Expo or Bare), React Hooks, and mobile debugging on Android/iOS
• Familiarity with Git, collaborative coding, and agile processes
• Comfort integrating REST or GraphQL APIs

Bonus Superpowers (Nice-to-Haves):

• Maps and geolocation integration
• Experience with notifications or background tasks
• Curiosity or experience with:
• Public health or behavioral science
• Nature-based therapies or environmental psychology
• Flexible: 4–21 hours/week based on your availability
• Initial commitment: 6–12 months, with the opportunity to stay longer as we scale from pilots to widespread adoption
• Global virtual team
• Volunteer role (unpaid), deeply rooted in service-learning and social innovation impact
• Built with interdependence: you’ll collaborate with stakeholders from tech, healthcare, science, and social design

🌿 Why This Role Might Be Your Ikigai

• You love solving real-world problems through clean, meaningful code
• You care deeply about reversing the isolation, burnout, and mental health crisis by reconnecting people with nature
• You're ready to grow as a developer while helping a social innovation scale for global good
• You want to do something that matters now—not “someday”

📚 About the Broader Initiative

Nature Counter is part of CrowdDoing.world’s biophilia-based public health ecosystem, seeking to make restorative time in nature as trackable and essential as steps, sleep, and nutrition. It aims to shift public and institutional behavior toward resilience and preventative health.

Form to register interest in Nature Counter React Native Mobile Application Engineering Volunteering-