Principal Architect, React Native – Mobile
Hotel Engine
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $174,845 - $242,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AndroidiOSKotlinReactReact NativeSwift
About the role
- Lead technical direction and long-term architectural vision for our mobile applications (built primarily in React Native)
- Act as the principal hands-on contributor, setting standards for engineering quality, performance, and scalability
- Drive alignment across mobile and web teams to ensure a consistent and unified user experience
- Collaborate with product and design leadership to shape strategy, execution plans, and sequencing for major mobile initiatives
- Establish scalable patterns, frameworks, and development standards across the mobile organization
- Partner with design and platform engineering on system-wide initiatives such as shared components, navigation, and design systems
- Champion engineering excellence through architecture reviews, performance optimization, and technical rigor
- Identify and mitigate technical risks while fostering innovation and experimentation
- Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers, providing technical guidance and helping to grow future leaders
- Act as a mobile subject-matter expert across the broader organization.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years of experience building and shipping high-quality mobile applications at scale
- Deep expertise with React Native and experience designing large, production-grade applications
- Strong understanding of mobile architecture, performance tuning, and platform best practices
- Experience with native iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and/or Android (Kotlin/Jetpack) development is a strong plus
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence cross-functional teams
- Strong systems thinking and a bias toward scalable frameworks and reusable patterns
- Experience mentoring Staff and Senior Engineers and shaping technical culture
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to drive clarity and alignment across teams.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.
- Check out our full list at engine.com/culture.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
React NativeiOS developmentSwiftSwiftUIAndroid developmentKotlinperformance tuningmobile architecturescalable frameworksreusable patterns
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationsystems thinkingcollaborationtechnical guidanceinnovationalignmentinfluenceengineering excellence