Marqeta

Staff Software Engineer, Frontend – React-Native

Marqeta

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $165,300 - $243,100 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AndroidGraphQLiOSJavaJavaScriptKotlinObjective-CReactReact NativeReduxSwiftTypeScript

About the role

  • Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership to shape and deliver innovative cardholder experiences across web and mobile platforms, aligning technical strategy with business goals.
  • Lead the design and development of React Native SDKs and applications, establishing architectural patterns that enable scalability, modularity, and cross-platform consistency.
  • Architect reusable and extensible React Native components that adhere to modern UI/UX patterns, accessibility standards, and internal design systems.
  • Drive mobile performance optimization strategies, including lazy loading, rendering optimizations, and bundle size reduction, to ensure fast, responsive experiences.
  • Contribute hands-on to complex front-end systems using React Native, TypeScript, and web technologies, while fostering engineering excellence through mentorship and code quality initiatives.
  • Define technical roadmaps and author detailed design documents that align with long-term platform strategy, balancing velocity with maintainability.
  • Lead engineering discussions, guide decision-making across teams, and champion best practices for mobile and web development to improve developer velocity and user experience.

Requirements

  • Over 8 years of experience in web and mobile application development, with deep expertise in architecting and delivering React Native solutions at scale.
  • Demonstrated mastery of React Native, including advanced usage of React Navigation, Expo, and custom native modules in Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C, and Java.
  • Proven ability to bridge React Native with complex native iOS and Android features, driving seamless integration across platforms.
  • Strong architectural understanding of React.js and modern state management solutions (Redux, Context API, Zustand, etc.), with experience scaling apps with predictable state flows.
  • Led the development and enforcement of design systems and modular component architectures to ensure consistency, reusability, and maintainability across large codebases.
  • Deep knowledge of mobile performance optimization, including instrumentation, memory profiling, and rendering improvements.
  • Extensive experience integrating RESTful and GraphQL APIs with scalable error handling, caching, and offline support patterns.
  • Expertise in implementing secure mobile authentication flows using OAuth, biometrics, and encrypted storage for session handling.
  • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using tools like Fastlane, Bitrise, and App Center to support robust, automated mobile delivery workflows.
  • Strong Git expertise and deep familiarity with scalable development workflows, including trunk-based development, code reviews, and release strategies.
  • Track record of mentoring engineers, driving cross-team mobile strategy, and raising engineering quality through technical leadership.
  • Exceptional debugging and cross-platform troubleshooting skills with a focus on improving app reliability and user experience.
  • Strong communicator and collaborator, known for partnering effectively with design, product, and backend engineering to align on vision, tradeoffs, and execution.
Benefits
  • Multiple health insurance options
  • Flexible time off – take what you need
  • Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions
  • Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
  • Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice
  • Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
  • Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
  • Through Flex First, the freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
React NativeTypeScriptReact NavigationExpoSwiftKotlinObjective-CJavaReduxGraphQL
Soft skills
mentorshiptechnical leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingcross-team strategydebuggingtroubleshootingdecision-makingengineering excellence