Job Summary:
The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to help build and evolve their mobile experience across iOS and Android. This high-impact role involves collaborating with various teams to create a fast, reliable, and engaging mobile experience for readers.
Responsibilities:
• Developing new reader-facing features in React Native for iOS and Android.
• Improving app performance, reliability, responsiveness, and stability.
• Building mobile-first experiences for content discovery, personalization, notifications, and reader engagement.
• Integrating with APIs, authentication systems, analytics platforms, push notification systems, and third-party services.
• Supporting experimentation, feature flagging, observability, and release management.
• Creating strong foundations for a scalable mobile platform as the product grows.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain cross-platform mobile applications using React Native.
• Own significant mobile features from technical planning through implementation, release, and iteration.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to translate user needs and mobile UX patterns into polished, accessible experiences.
• Partner with Backend and Data teams to integrate APIs, analytics, personalization, and engagement tools.
• Improve mobile performance, debugging, monitoring, and production reliability.
• Contribute to mobile architecture, engineering standards, CI/CD practices, and release processes.
• Troubleshoot production issues and use data, observability, and user feedback to improve the app experience.
• Mentor other engineers and help raise the quality of mobile development across the team.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building production mobile applications with React Native.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Experience developing for both iOS and Android environments.
• Understanding of mobile app lifecycle, deployment, app store processes, and release management.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs and working with modern backend systems.
• Familiarity with state management patterns such as Redux, Context API, or similar approaches.
• Strong understanding of mobile performance optimization, debugging, testing, and observability.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, design, data, and editorial teams.
• A product-minded approach to engineering and a genuine interest in building excellent user experiences.
Preferred:
• Experience with Expo and modern React Native tooling.
• Experience with analytics, engagement platforms, push notifications, or in-app messaging.
• Familiarity with experimentation, A/B testing, personalization, or subscription products.
• Knowledge of mobile accessibility, security, and performance best practices.
• Experience in media, news, consumer subscription, marketplace, or other high-scale digital product environments.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures or AWS-based ecosystems.
Company:
The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism is a nonprofit organization focused on delivering local journalism. Founded in , the company is headquartered in Baltimore, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.