Staff Software Engineer, React Native

PrizePicks

Staff Software Engineer developing React Native applications for PrizePicks. Leading technical direction and mentoring engineers to build exceptional mobile experiences.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $195,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoJestReactReact NativeRuby on RailsTypeScriptYarn

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own technical direction: Set and evolve the technical standards, architecture, and best practices for your team’s mobile features, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability of the app.
Lead the hardest problems: Own the design and delivery of the team’s most complex, highest-scope projects — the ones that require deep technical judgment and cross-system thinking.
Drive team efficiency: Identify and implement improvements to developer tooling, build pipelines, and development workflows that enable the entire team to iterate faster and ship with more confidence.
Establish engineering practices: Define and enforce standards for component architecture, testing, accessibility, performance, and mobile deployment across the team.
Mentor all engineers: Provide mentorship to engineers at every level on the team, shaping technical growth, raising the quality bar, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Collaborate at the organizational level: Work with Engineering Managers, Product leadership, and other Staff/Principal engineers to align technical strategy with business objectives.
Own cross-stack integration: Ensure the mobile app integrates effectively with backend services (Go and Rails), driving consistency in API contracts and data flows across the platform.
Participate in on-call rotation: Own systemic reliability improvements and lead incident response for the most critical production issues.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8–10 years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise building production React Native applications at scale
Proven track record of owning multiple complex technical initiatives and driving them to successful outcomes across a team
Experience with the full mobile development lifecycle at scale — architecture, build systems, deployment pipelines, and post-release monitoring
Experience building mobile applications backed by large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems serving millions of users
History of elevating engineering teams through mentorship, standards-setting, and technical leadership
Mastery-level TypeScript proficiency — you are a reference point for TypeScript best practices, patterns, and type system usage
Deep React Native expertise — you have solved hard problems around performance, native modules, complex animations, and cross-platform consistency
Expert experience with Expo and its ecosystem, monorepo tooling (Yarn workspaces), and mobile build/release infrastructure
Strong understanding of mobile testing strategies at scale — Jest, Maestro for E2E testing, and quality automation
Proficiency with CI/CD for mobile and Expo/EAS workflows — automated builds, OTA updates, staged rollouts, app store pipelines
Understanding of backend API patterns — you can read, reason about, and influence API design across Go and Rails services

Benefits

Comp & perks

Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
401(k) plan with company match
Annual bonus
Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)
Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked
Company-wide in-person events and team outings
Lifestyle enhancement program
Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development

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Hard Skills & Tools

React NativeTypeScriptmobile development lifecycleperformance optimizationnative modulescomplex animationsmobile testing strategiesCI/CDAPI designdistributed systems

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipcollaborationproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementcommunicationorganizational alignmentcross-system thinkingteam efficiencystandards-setting