Senior React Native Developer

You'll take a leading role in developing and scaling hiyrd's live iOS and Android platform, working directly with our founders and engineering team.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Own and develop major parts of our React Native application, from architecture through to production deployment.
• Build and optimise our short-form video experience, including recording, processing, streaming and feed performance.
• Develop our creator marketplace, including paid campaigns, verification, wallet functionality and Stripe Connect payments.
• Build new social, engagement and gamification features that drive user retention and platform growth.
• Help evolve our verified-human platform as we expand into AI training data collection and custom dataset creation.
• Improve application performance, reliability, security, testing and overall engineering standards.
• Make meaningful architectural decisions and contribute to the long-term technical direction of the platform.
• Work closely with the founders to turn ambitious product ideas into scalable, production-ready features.

This isn't a maintenance role. You'll be building on an established, live product while helping shape what it becomes next.

We're looking for someone who enjoys solving difficult technical challenges, takes pride in shipping exceptional software and wants their work to have a direct impact on the company's success.

What we're looking for:

• Strong commercial experience with React Native, React and TypeScript, including shipping and maintaining production iOS and Android applications.
• Deep understanding of mobile architecture, performance optimisation, state management and native integrations.
• Experience with Expo, Redux Toolkit / RTK Query, Reanimated and modern React Native development practices.
• Confidence debugging native iOS and Android issues, including Xcode, CocoaPods, Gradle and performance bottlenecks.
• Experience integrating REST APIs, authentication systems, third-party SDKs and payment infrastructure.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and mobile release processes.
• Ability to take technical ownership, make sound architectural decisions and deliver high-quality code independently.
• Comfortable working directly with founders in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve quickly.

Bonus points for:

• Video streaming, HLS, media compression and high-performance feeds.
• AWS, Cognito, S3, Stripe Connect or Stream Chat.
• Experience building consumer social platforms, marketplaces or fintech products.
• Previous experience at leading technology companies, AI labs or high-growth venture-backed startups.

We value engineering judgement, ownership and proven delivery over formal qualifications.

Why join hiyrd?

• Real ownership: Take responsibility for meaningful parts of the product, with the autonomy to make important technical decisions.
• Work directly with the founders: No unnecessary management layers, bureaucracy or endless approval processes.
• Build something ambitious: Help create a global marketplace operating at the intersection of social, creator monetisation and AI.
• Small, high-impact team: Your contributions won't disappear into a backlog. The features you build will reach real users.
• Modern technology: Work with a current React Native stack and tackle challenging engineering problems across video, payments and mobile infrastructure.
• Influence the direction: Help shape our architecture, technical standards and engineering culture as we grow.
• Growth opportunity: Join at an early stage, with the potential to take on greater technical leadership as the company scales.
• Fast-moving environment: We value initiative, practical solutions and shipping great products over unnecessary process.

We're building a team of exceptional people who want to do meaningful work and help create something genuinely significant.