Senior React Native Software Engineer

inKind is seeking a Senior React Native Engineer to join one of our cross-functional product pods focused on building intelligent AI-powered consumer and restaurant experiences.

This is not a traditional mobile engineering role. We are looking for a highly adaptable product engineer who thrives in a fast-moving environment leverages AI tooling daily and enjoys owning meaningful product outcomes from concept to production.

You will operate inside a small autonomous pod structure alongside product managers designers backend engineers data/AI engineers and QA partners. Each pod is responsible for rapidly shipping and iterating on customer-facing features internal operational tools and AI-enabled experiences that power the future of the restaurant ecosystem.

You’ll play a key role in scaling our React Native platform while helping integrate modern AI workflows LLM-powered product experiences and AI-assisted engineering practices across the organization.
Key Responsibilities

• Design develop and maintain high-quality React Native applications for iOS and Android
• Build performant scalable and maintainable mobile experiences
• Collaborate closely with your pod to rapidly prototype and ship new features
• Partner with product and design teams to translate business goals into elegant technical solutions

• Build mobile interfaces and workflows that integrate AI-powered capabilities and LLM-driven experiences
• Collaborate with backend and AI engineering teams to support recommendation systems conversational experiences personalization and intelligent automation
• Integrate with modern AI infrastructure and APIs where appropriate
• Help define best practices for AI-native mobile product experiences

• Leverage AI coding agents and modern developer tooling to accelerate engineering velocity
• Evaluate and improve workflows using AI-assisted development practices
• Maintain strong engineering judgment while validating AI-generated code and architectural suggestions
• Contribute to engineering efficiency through automation and tooling improvements

• Optimize rendering state management app startup time memory usage and overall mobile performance
• Work across React Native and native platform integrations when necessary
• Improve application observability reliability and scalability
• Help shape frontend architecture and technical direction across pods

• Write clean testable well-documented Typescript code
• Participate in code reviews architecture discussions and engineering planning
• Build and maintain automated tests and CI/CD workflows
• Share knowledge and mentor other engineers across the organization
• Contribute to a strong engineering culture focused on ownership speed and continuous improvement

• 5+ years of professional experience building React Native applications
• Strong expertise with Typescript and modern React architecture
• Experience working in fast-paced startup or product-led engineering environments
• Strong understanding of mobile application performance optimization
• Experience integrating REST APIs and third-party services
• Strong understanding of complex state management patterns (Redux Zustand React Query Context etc.)
• Experience working with agents LLM tooling or AI-assisted development workflows
• Ability to move quickly through large codebases and ambiguous technical challenges
• Strong debugging and systems-thinking capabilities
• Product-minded engineering approach with strong ownership mentality

• Experience building AI-powered product features or integrating LLM APIs
• Familiarity with vector search recommendation systems RAG architectures or conversational interfaces
• Experience with React.js web applications
• Experience with native mobile development (Swift Kotlin Java Objective-C C++)
• Experience designing scalable frontend/mobile architecture

At inKind we believe supporting our employees goes beyond compensation. We’re committed to creating an environment where our team can thrive both professionally and personally.

• 100% employer-paid medical coverage through Blue Cross Blue Shield for employees on our base healthcare plan
• 100% employer-paid Dental PPO coverage for employees
• Vision coverage available
• Company-paid Short-Term Disability coverage

• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• 9 paid company holidays annually
• Generous parental leave and child care benefits

• Career development and training opportunities designed to support long-term professional growth

• Daily catered lunches and office snacks
• Credits to dine within the inKind restaurant network

• Collaborative in-person culture based in Austin Texas
• Dog-friendly office environment with views of downtown Austin
  

Salary: 

$145000 - $160000 DOE

What We Do

inKind's mission is to support the success of independent restaurants and hospitality groups by providing funding and enriching customers' dining experiences with the inKind platform. At inKind we believe restaurants are integral parts of our communities and recognize the economic realities of being a successful operator. To better support hospitality ventures we created a unique funding model that focuses on ensuring the success of our partners and providing customers a way to discover new restaurants nationwide.

Why Work With Us

We are a team of passionate foodies focused on creating a lasting impact for the restaurant industry. Our team celebrates diversity encourages collaboration and shares meals to imagine the most innovative and modern solutions for the food & beverage landscape. If you feel inspired by our vision we’d love to hear what we could put on your plate.

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