Senior React Native Developer

My client is hiring a senior level React Native Developer to increase delivery capacity and help close the feature and experience gap between mobile and web, with a core focus on evolving their media streaming experience.

This role is designed for someone who wants real ownership, freedom to make decisions, and the flexibility that comes with a high trust environment.

Why this role is attractive

This position offers:

• High autonomy and genuine ownership, you will shape solutions rather than just deliver tickets

• Strong flexibility, including the ability to work remotely for extended periods of time

• A high trust environment with meaningful responsibility

• Interesting, modern technical challenges

• A small mobile team where your impact is visible quickly

The role

You will strengthen and expand the media streaming capabilities within the mobile application, ensuring it keeps pace with improvements on the web platform.

Key responsibilities include:

• Improving and expanding media streaming functionality within the mobile app

• Closing the feature and experience gap between mobile and web

• Driving stability, performance, and usability improvements

• Bringing clear technical opinions and helping guide the direction of the mobile product

What my client is looking for

Must have

• Senior level React Native experience

• Hands on experience with Expo

• Deep knowledge of React Native, understanding why technical decisions are made and what they lead to

Strong nice to haves

• Experience with media streaming technologies

• Side projects, entrepreneurial experience, or strong personal technical initiatives

Strong senior React Native engineers without direct streaming experience can still be a great fit if they are:

• Genuinely excited to learn the media streaming space

• Opinionated about how streaming experiences could be improved and able to articulate their thinking

How they work

My client values engineers who:

• Take a pragmatic 80/20 approach and prioritise delivery

• Are comfortable shipping something imperfect and iterating

• Communicate clearly and directly

• Are honest about trade offs and willing to admit when they are wrong

• Can explain the reasoning behind technical decisions, not just execute

Team culture

• Fast paced and occasionally chaotic

• Proactive mindset, issues are addressed when they happen rather than waiting

• High trust, high autonomy, high responsibility

• A team that genuinely cares and goes above and beyond

Location

• Fully remote role

• Ideally based in Berlin, but remote candidates are welcome