Staff Mobile Software Engineer

NCSA College Recruiting is the world's largest college recruiting platform, providing student-athletes with tools and access to a network of college coaches. The Staff Mobile Software Engineer will lead the development of a React Native mobile project, overseeing the mobile client and back-end API while collaborating with product teams to deliver business value.

Responsibilities:

• Experience architecting, developing and maintaining React Native applications
• Sufficient experience to teach others about mobile development, 12-factor applications and modern development practices
• Expertise using languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, go and Ruby
• Able to make system design trade-offs based on real-world experience
• Experience negotiating scope to deliver business value on compressed timelines
• Comfortable with complexity and learning in wicked environments
• Deeply understand mobile application telemetry and strategies for observing and influencing user behavior
• Familiar with Incident Command System for managing outages and security incidents
• Know how to use configuration management and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform
• Experience with container orchestration using tools like Docker Swarm or Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of and experience with relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and non-relational data stores (e.g. Redis, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch)
• Writes loosely coupled code with excellent test coverage; using automation for tests, builds and deployment; implementing monitoring and logging proactively
• Familiarity with design and interface guidelines of iOS and Android
• Experience using streaming (e.g. Kafka) a plus
• Comfortable in architecting solution with a full stack approach, from mobile client to back end
• Architect and implement build and test patterns to prevent release of bad binaries to the app store
• Collaborate with the Product and Platform team to craft technical solutions that meet internal and external customer needs
• Support critical applications in a fast-paced environment
• Research and intervene to quickly and efficiently pinpoint and resolve problematic system issues
• Review and improve teammate output, providing detailed and thoughtful feedback
• Define and extend code management processes to improve development team efficiency
• Ability to communicate with product and stakeholders on requirements; able to mentor more inexperienced engineers effectively
• Provide 24x7 on-call support on a rotating basis

Requirements:

• 7+ years of industry experience
• 5+ years' experience in React Native mobile engineering
• 5+ years' experience maintaining and extending mobile back ends or other API applications
• Experience architecting, developing and maintaining React Native applications
• Sufficient experience to teach others about mobile development, 12-factor applications and modern development practices
• Expertise using languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, go and Ruby
• Able to make system design trade-offs based on real-world experience
• Experience negotiating scope to deliver business value on compressed timelines
• Comfortable with complexity and learning in wicked environments
• Deeply understand mobile application telemetry and strategies for observing and influencing user behavior
• Familiar with Incident Command System for managing outages and security incidents
• Know how to use configuration management and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform
• Experience with container orchestration using tools like Docker Swarm or Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of and experience with relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and non-relational data stores (e.g. Redis, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch)
• Writes loosely coupled code with excellent test coverage; using automation for tests, builds and deployment; implementing monitoring and logging proactively
• Familiarity with design and interface guidelines of iOS and Android
• Comfortable in architecting solution with a full stack approach, from mobile client to back end
• Architect and implement build and test patterns to prevent release of bad binaries to the app store
• Collaborate with the Product and Platform team to craft technical solutions that meet internal and external customer needs
• Support critical applications in a fast-paced environment
• Research and intervene to quickly and efficiently pinpoint and resolve problematic system issues
• Review and improve teammate output, providing detailed and thoughtful feedback
• Define and extend code management processes to improve development team efficiency
• Ability to communicate with product and stakeholders on requirements; able to mentor more inexperienced engineers effectively
• Provide 24x7 on-call support on a rotating basis
• Requires a background check upon offer
• Experience deploying binaries to the Google Play and iOS app stores. Experience using the Expo build tool a plus
• Experience with AI tools such as Claude Code, Copilot or Cursor are a plus
• Experience using streaming (e.g. Kafka) a plus