Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (React Native)

Versant Media is a media and entertainment company operating digital platforms and ventures across news, sports, entertainment, and related digital assets. The company is seeking a Senior React Native Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve high-quality iOS and Android mobile experiences, while guiding architecture and owning features from design through production support. The role collaborates with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering and improves performance, testing, CI/CD, tooling, and release processes.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable React Native applications for iOS and Android
• Develop reusable, accessible, and high-performing components using React Native and TypeScript
• Guide architectural decisions across navigation, state management, data access, and native integrations
• Integrate REST and GraphQL APIs, authentication services, analytics platforms, and third-party SDKs
• Own features from technical design through testing, release, monitoring, and production support
• Partner with Product, Design, QA, and backend engineers to deliver effective technical solutions
• Improve application performance, reliability, automated testing, CI/CD, tooling, and release processes
• Contribute through code reviews, technical discussions, knowledge sharing, and responsible technical-debt reduction

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building and supporting production React Native applications
• Strong proficiency with React Native, React, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript across iOS and Android
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture, navigation, state management, component design, data persistence, and platform-specific behavior
• Experience integrating REST or GraphQL APIs, authentication, and third-party services
• Experience with automated testing, mobile build and signing, and Apple App Store and Google Play release processes
• Ability to produce clean, secure, testable, and maintainable code using sound engineering practices
• Strong ownership, communication, and problem-solving skills within a distributed engineering team
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools or integrating AI into products or engineering workflows
• Occasional travel is required, primarily within the United States several times a year and, in rare circumstances, globally
• Experience with mobile CI/CD, over-the-air releases, observability, crash reporting, push notifications, deep linking, offline workflows, accessibility, or internationalization
• Experience building high-traffic consumer applications or integrating payments, digital wallets, or native hardware
• Experience with ticketing, concessions, point-of-sale, inventory, ordering, loyalty, cinema, entertainment, or hospitality platforms
• Familiarity with Node.js, Ruby on Rails, relational databases, Redis, or AWS