Job Summary:
The Baltimore Banner is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to help build and evolve their mobile experience across iOS and Android. This role involves developing new features, improving app performance, and collaborating with various teams to create an engaging mobile experience for readers.
Responsibilities:
โข Developing new reader-facing features in React Native for iOS and Android.
โข Improving app performance, reliability, responsiveness, and stability.
โข Building mobile-first experiences for content discovery, personalization, notifications, and reader engagement.
โข Integrating with APIs, authentication systems, analytics platforms, push notification systems, and third-party services.
โข Supporting experimentation, feature flagging, observability, and release management.
โข Creating strong foundations for a scalable mobile platform as the product grows.
โข Design, develop, test, and maintain cross-platform mobile applications using React Native.
โข Own significant mobile features from technical planning through implementation, release, and iteration.
โข Collaborate with Product and Design to translate user needs and mobile UX patterns into polished, accessible experiences.
โข Partner with Backend and Data teams to integrate APIs, analytics, personalization, and engagement tools.
โข Improve mobile performance, debugging, monitoring, and production reliability.
โข Contribute to mobile architecture, engineering standards, CI/CD practices, and release processes.
โข Troubleshoot production issues and use data, observability, and user feedback to improve the app experience.
โข Mentor other engineers and help raise the quality of mobile development across the team.
Qualifications:
Required:
โข 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
โข 3+ years of hands-on experience building production mobile applications with React Native.
โข Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
โข Experience developing for both iOS and Android environments.
โข Understanding of mobile app lifecycle, deployment, app store processes, and release management.
โข Experience integrating RESTful APIs and working with modern backend systems.
โข Familiarity with state management patterns such as Redux, Context API, or similar approaches.
โข Strong understanding of mobile performance optimization, debugging, testing, and observability.
โข Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
โข Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, design, data, and editorial teams.
โข A product-minded approach to engineering and a genuine interest in building excellent user experiences.
Preferred:
โข Experience with Expo and modern React Native tooling.
โข Experience with analytics, engagement platforms, push notifications, or in-app messaging.
โข Familiarity with experimentation, A/B testing, personalization, or subscription products.
โข Knowledge of mobile accessibility, security, and performance best practices.
โข Experience in media, news, consumer subscription, marketplace, or other high-scale digital product environments.
โข Familiarity with cloud-native architectures or AWS-based ecosystems.
Company:
Local news you can trust. We report stories that make life better in Baltimore and Maryland. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, US, , with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.