Senior React Native Developer

Role: Senior React Native Developer Position: Full-time Remote (Work From Home) Platform: Yokel – A community-driven fundraising and local commerce platform About Yokel Yokel is building a platform that connects local businesses, communities, and fundraisers in a seamless, automated way. Users make purchases at participating merchants, and automatically support local causes—no manual tracking, no friction. Our mobile app is central to this experience: event discovery, QR-code-based deep linking, real-time fundraiser progress, purchase insights, and community engagement. We are growing quickly and are looking for a senior engineer who can help us scale our React Native application with quality, performance, and great user experience. Role Overview We are seeking a Senior React Native Developer to join the Yokel mobile application team. You will be a part of developing and managing major feature builds, architecture decisions, performance improvements, app store deployments, and collaborate closely with backend, product, and design teams. This is a high-impact role—your work will directly shape the experience of thousands of users participating in local fundraisers and community events. Key Responsibilities - Drive development of new features and improvements in the React Native mobile app. - Architect scalable, maintainable, high-performance mobile codebases. - Implement and maintain deep linking, universal links, QR code flows, and advanced navigation patterns. - Integrate front-end components with APIs, including secure flows such as Stripe account linking and transaction data retrieval. - Improve app reliability, performance, and UI responsiveness. - Own the end-to-end CI/CD pipeline for mobile (builds, OTA updates, store submissions). - Collaborate with backend engineers to define API contracts and optimize data flows. - Conduct code reviews, mentor junior developers, and help establish engineering best practices. - Work closely with product and design to ensure exceptional user experiences. Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. - 5+ years of professional experience in mobile development and 3+ years building production apps in React Native. - As this is a remote position, strong command over spoken and written English is a must. - Strong knowledge of JavaScript / TypeScript, functional patterns, and modern RN architecture. - Experience with React Navigation, deep linking, universal links, and complex routing. - Experience integrating with backend services and third-party SDKs (Plaid experience is a plus). - Familiarity with iOS and Android native modules, bridging, and platform-specific constraints. - Strong understanding of performance optimization, offline handling, and state management using Redux. - Experience with CI/CD, app versioning, and App Store / Play Store submission processes. - Strong communication skills and ability to operate autonomously in a remote environment. Nice-to-Have - Experience with Stripe, or other financial APIs. - Experience with using AI based tools such as Cursor, CoPilot etc will really help. - Experience with analytics, monitoring, and error-tracking tools (Sentry, Firebase, etc.). - Prior startup experience—comfortable moving fast and iterating. - UX intuition and an eye for polished interactions/animations. What We Offer - 100% remote work with a flexible schedule. - Competitive compensation. - Opportunity to influence the architecture and direction of a fast-growing mobile product. - Work on meaningful problems that help local businesses and communities thrive. - A collaborative, supportive, high-ownership culture.