Staff Software Engineer, Mobile

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon and connect it to business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
• Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes that multiply the team’s effectiveness.
• Own team operations and availability through monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call practices.
• Establish code review and design standards and promote quality and ownership through writing and technical talks.
• Develop team talent through feedback, guidance, and leadership by example.
• Build and maintain shared mobile infrastructure, including design systems, networking, observability, experimentation, CI/CD, app releases, and developer tooling.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience developing and architecting mobile applications, including 4+ years using React Native.
• Proficiency with JavaScript and TypeScript, plus hands-on React Native and Expo experience.
• Experience authoring or migrating native modules and components and debugging across the JavaScript-to-native boundary under React Native’s New Architecture.
• Experience with complex React state management; Redux Toolkit proficiency is a bonus.
• Experience performing major React Native SDK updates and staying current with native operating system releases.
• Experience with mobile testing, observability, crash reporting, experimentation, and feature-flagging tools such as Maestro, Appium, Sentry, Crashlytics, Statsig, and LaunchDarkly.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or comparable agentic tooling, with judgment about appropriate guardrails and quality standards.
• Proven track record driving teams to execute large projects and delivering major features, system components, or deprecations through technical and execution plans.
• Strong coding, architecture, communication, collaboration, feedback, and talent-development skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

• Remote-first role open to candidates residing in specified Canadian provinces.
• Affirm covers health care premiums for employees and dependents, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible Spending Wallets provide stipends for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
• Employee stock purchase plan enabling employees to buy shares at a discount.
• Additional total compensation benefits may include monthly health, wellness, and technology stipends.