Sr. React Native Developer (Contract)

DockYard is hiring an experienced Senior React Native Developer who is passionate about mobile development and has designed robust application architectures with React Native. Who We Are DockYard is a remote-first digital product consultancy. Forward-thinking teams come to us to build digital products that scale as their users, features, and complexity grow. Using a candid approach to partnerships, we help to upskill teams along the way. The result? More flexibility in how our clients take products from idea to impact. We don’t just use innovative approaches to product development — we lead them. That’s why visionary companies like Netflix and Apple have trusted us to overcome complex product challenges. We’re honored to have been included in guides ranging from The Startup Weekly’s Exceptional Workplace Award (2021), The BBJ’s Fast 50 (2021, 2020), Inc 5000 (2020, 2019), and Fast Company’s Best Places to Work for Innovators (2020), amongst others. The Role The Senior React Native Developer will collaborate closely with designers, UX developers, backend engineers, stakeholders, and clients to understand business goals, analyze requirements, architect solutions, and successfully deliver impactful mobile products using a phased delivery approach. You must be able to build, run, debug, and ship the application for both iOS and Android. In this role, you’ll help build and evolve an iOS/Android application that depends on well-designed APIs and operational tooling. While you won’t be responsible for backend implementation, you’ll partner closely with backend engineers to shape API contracts, performance requirements, offline/poor-network behavior, and mobile-friendly error handling. The ideal candidate is self-driven, team-oriented, and product-minded, with strong fundamentals in React Native and a track record of shipping high-quality mobile apps to production. Responsibilities • Build user-centric iOS and Android applications using React Native and TypeScript, including day-to-day work in both platform build/debug environments. • Design and maintain scalable mobile architecture (navigation, state management, data fetching, caching, app configuration, and release practices). • Partner with backend engineers to define and consume APIs (request/response contracts, pagination/filtering patterns, versioning/backwards compatibility, and predictable error handling). • Implement ticketing/entitlement presentation flows (including QR/barcode display), with clear offline/poor-network fallbacks and safe caching strategies. • Build and maintain real-time content and messaging surfaces in the app (alerts/announcements, notification preferences, and in-app messaging views as needed). • Instrument mobile analytics events and collaborate on KPI definitions (feature adoption, conversion funnels, notification effectiveness). • Implement polished UI from designs, collaborating with design/UX specialists on interaction patterns, usability, and accessibility. • Deliver production-quality features with appropriate testing, analytics hooks, and release discipline. • Assist in project scoping, estimation, and planning activities. • Participate actively in code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing practices. Must Haves • Proven experience shipping and supporting React Native apps to production on both iOS and Android (App Store + Google Play). • Proven experience shipping production mobile apps using React Native. • Experience building mobile experiences that must perform under peak-event conditions (high concurrency, intermittent connectivity, fast startup, predictable caching, and clean error states). • Strong TypeScript experience and comfort building shared, reusable component systems. • Experience with common React Native architecture concerns: navigation, state, async flows, networking, caching, and performance. • Strong understanding of mobile realities: flaky networks, offline/poor connectivity behavior, app lifecycle, and device variability. • Experience writing and maintaining tests (e.g., Jest, React Native Testing Library; end-to-end testing experience is a plus). • Experience with at least one mainstream React Native delivery framework/workflow, such as Expo (including EAS) and/or React Native CLI / native build pipelines (Xcode/Android Studio, Fastlane, CI/CD for mobile). • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including client-facing work. Nice To Haves • Familiarity with push notifications (APNs/FCM), deep linking, analytics/event tracking, feature flags, and crash reporting. • Experience integrating with external APIs and distributed systems (REST/GraphQL), including handling rate limits and retries gracefully. • Experience with wallet-like UX, QR/barcode flows, redemption or commerce-adjacent experiences, and/or location-aware features (geofencing), with a privacy-forward approach. • Accessibility experience (VoiceOver/TalkBack) and UI performance profiling. • Prior client services, consulting, or freelancing experience. • Previous remote working experience. • Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot). Employment Type Contract (expected 40 hours/week) Level Senior+ Location Remote (United States) Even if you don’t feel you’re a 100% fit, we’d still love to hear from you! DockYard is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, political affiliation, personal appearance, pregnancy, family responsibilities, matriculation, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Apply tot his job