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