Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native)

⌘ About Timeleft

Timeleft is a social app that brings strangers together for IRL events. Every week, we match people into groups of 6 across 200+ cities in 52 countries. We're a fast-growing B2C subscription business.

What you build will be used by 150,000+ people every week — discovering their match, chatting with their group, finding the restaurant, and sharing how their evening went. Features ship weekly, your code goes live fast, and you see the impact immediately.

⌘ Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer to join the App team and help build the next generation of the Timeleft experience. Our product is a React Native + Expo application running on iOS, Android, and Web, backed by a NestJS API.

You will work alongside experienced mobile engineers and collaborate closely with product, design, QA, and backend teams. You'll own features end-to-end — from technical scoping through implementation, testing, and release — and contribute to the architecture and quality of a codebase serving users across 40+ cities worldwide.

This is a high-impact role where your code ships weekly and directly affects how people connect. We are an AI-first engineering team that uses AI tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining strong engineering standards. You'll be expected to use AI coding tools as part of your daily workflow to work effectively with modern development tooling and workflows.

⌘ Key Responsibilities

Feature Development

Own features end-to-end: technical scoping, implementation, testing, and release

Build performant, accessible UI components following the design system

Leverage AI coding tools to accelerate development and maintain high code quality

Ensure features are properly instrumented and observable post-release

Comfortable debugging production issues using analytics, logs, and crash reporting tools

Quality & Testing

Contribute to automated testing and reusable component documentation

Contribute to E2E test coverage and automated testing

Comfortable working with feature flags, analytics, and experimentation workflows

Architecture & Collaboration

Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction of the mobile codebase

Review PRs thoroughly and provide constructive, actionable feedback

Collaborate with product and design to refine requirements and propose better solutions

Platform & Infrastructure

Comfortable contributing to CI/CD, tooling, and platform-specific improvements when needed

⌘ Expected Outcomes

Month 1: Onboarding & First Contributions

Get familiar with the app's architecture, key flows, and team conventions

Set up your development environment and AI-assisted workflow

Deliver first small features and bug fixes to build confidence with the codebase

Month 2: Independent Delivery

Ship user-facing features with increasing independence

Actively participate in PR reviews and contribute feedback

Build working relationships with product, design, QA, and backend teams

Month 3: Feature Ownership

Own a feature end-to-end, from scoping to release

Contribute to architectural discussions and propose improvements

⌘ Skills & Competencies

Must have:

Strong professional experience with React Native and TypeScript

Cross-platform development experience (iOS, Android, Web)

Strong understanding of state management, data fetching, and caching patterns

Performance optimization and React component architecture best practices

Experience with mobile release workflows and app store distribution

Experience writing automated tests for mobile features

Comfortable with RESTful APIs and Git workflows

Strong debugging and monitoring skills

Comfortable working with AI coding tools — or eager to make them a core part of your workflow

Nice to have:

Experience with prompt engineering or AI-assisted workflows beyond coding

Experience with CI/CD pipelines

Experience with real-time features (chat, live updates)

Experience working on apps with international user base (multi-locale, timezone handling)

Soft skills:

Ownership mindset and strong communication skills

Ability to balance speed with quality in a weekly release cadence

Proactive about identifying problems and proposing solutions

Eye for UI detail and ability to spot gaps in the UX flow

Ability to scope work: break features into tasks, estimate complexity, and flag risks

Comfortable iterating quickly on product ideas and adapting to evolving requirements

⌘ Required experience

4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years building mobile applications in React Native

Production apps shipped to App Store and Google Play

Experience working in a cross-functional team (product, design, QA, backend)

Experience or strong interest in working with AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude, Copilot, etc)

Fluency in English

⌘ Recruitment Process

Introduction interview (30 min): Talent Acquisition Lead, Maja. We'll talk about your experience, what you're looking for, and whether Timeleft feels like a good fit.

Technical test (at home): You'll build a feature based on a mini PRD using our tech stack. We'll ask you to submit your code along with the full conversation history from your AI coding tools.

Assignment review (1 hour): You'll walk through your build with Alejandra, our Team Lead. We'll discuss the trade-offs you made, how you used AI tools, and how you approached the problem. This is also where we get a sense of your ownership mindset, communication style, and how you collaborate.

Final interview (30 min): You'll meet Misha, our Head of Engineering. We'll talk about team fit and how you'd contribute to the team and the product.