Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native) - AirSpot

What You’ll Do

• Build and ship production mobile features with React Native, Expo, TypeScript, and Expo Router.
• Own architectural decisions across state management, data fetching, offline behavior, navigation, and the mobile build/release pipeline.
• Build geospatial experiences with MapLibre, including real-time location and map interactions.
• Improve performance and reliability across startup time, animations, lists, memory, battery, and crashes.
• Establish reliable testing with Jest, React Native Testing Library, and Maestro.
• Own production delivery with EAS, including builds, signing, releases, and app store readiness.
• Contribute to backend APIs when useful and help establish engineering standards as the team grows.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery without compromising quality.

About You

• Several years of professional software engineering experience, including at least two production React Native apps with real users.
• Strong React Native, TypeScript, and Expo experience, including the New Architecture (Fabric, TurboModules, Bridgeless).
• Experience with mobile performance, testing, observability, and production releases.
• Hands-on experience with MapLibre, Mapbox, Google Maps, or comparable mobile mapping technologies.
• Evidence of owning architecture or major technical decisions, not just implementing predefined features.
• Strong engineering judgment, pragmatic problem-solving, and the ability to work independently in a small team.
• University-level technical education in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Eligible to work in Germany and, where required, for EU/NATO security clearance.

Nice-to-Haves

• Node.js, Bun, or other backend experience.
• Reanimated, Gesture Handler, and advanced React Native animations.
• Geospatial, aviation, ADS-B, drone, or real-time location experience.
• Experience with EAS/Fastlane and mobile CI/CD.
• Defense, law enforcement, or other regulated-environment experience.
• German language skills.
• Open-source contributions to React Native or Expo.
• Practical experience with AI coding agents and modern AI-assisted development.

What We Offer

• Own the mobile architecture: Shape a greenfield product and its technical direction.
• Modern stack: React Native, Expo, New Architecture, Reanimated, MapLibre, TanStack Query, and Zustand.
• High ownership: Work in a small team where your decisions have direct product impact.
• Remote-first, Germany-wide: Work from wherever you do your best work, with regular team gatherings in Berlin/Dresden and other off-site locations.
• Flexibility by default: Flexible working hours help you make work fit your life.
• Your setup, your way: Get a personal home-office equipment budget to create a workspace that works for you.
• 30 days of vacation: Take the time you need to recharge and come back with fresh energy.
• Keep growing: We invest in your personal and professional development.
• Get rewarded for impact: Performance bonuses are tied to agreed objectives and key results.
• A warm welcome: Every new team member gets a welcome goodie bag.
• Good people, good times: From summer and Christmas parties to regular team gatherings, we make time to celebrate together.
• A mission that matters: Work on challenges with tangible impact on public safety and national security.