Senior / Staff Frontend Engineer (Web & Mobile)

Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that unlocks the ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle through the power of community. The role involves building dynamic, consumer-facing applications using React for web and React Native for mobile, while also influencing the technical roadmap of the product.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a technology leader, contributing to key decisions regarding tech stack and strategy across both web (Next.js) and mobile (React Native) development
• Work directly with the co-founders, CTO, product designers, and fellow engineers to build and iterate on the Kindred platform
• Architect, build, test, and scale features across our Next.js web application and React Native mobile app
• Develop reusable UI components and contribute to our cross-platform design system thinking
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and responsiveness on both web and mobile
• Integrate with backend APIs, ensuring seamless data flow and user experience
• Help establish and grow our engineering organization, including mentoring future engineers
• Have access to our bench of world-class technical advisors and angels for mentorship and support as needed

Requirements:

• 5+ years of technical experience building consumer-facing applications, with significant expertise in both React (web) and React Native (mobile)
• Experience building, testing, and scaling large-scale web and mobile applications
• Proficient in JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern frontend/mobile tooling (e.g., Webpack, Metro, Tailwind CSS)
• Experience architecting scalable frontend and mobile solutions. Experience with Next.js is a strong plus
• Possess an understanding of native mobile app toolchains (iOS/Android) and their integration with React Native
• Experience building scalable and reusable UI components, ideally with experience contributing to or using design systems
• Strong attention to detail in UI implementation and a deep understanding of consumer-facing UX principles across web and mobile
• Skilled in performance optimization techniques for both web and mobile
• Demonstrated success operating as a tech lead or senior individual contributor on critical projects in previous roles
• Prior experience at a high-growth stage company
• An entrepreneur at heart who is excited about bringing new experiences to the world
• Motivated by consumer products and building platforms that become cornerstones of consumer behavior
• Ability to exercise strong judgment and make difficult technical tradeoff decisions
• Excellent listener and strong communicator, working well cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity, enjoying the process of making something new and unknown
• Pragmatic approach to engineering — you're not dogmatic and know how to choose the best tool or process for the job at hand
• Come to work with energy, humility, and positivity