Senior Mobile Engineer

The Baltimore Banner • Baltimore, MD

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Banner is seeking a Senior Mobile Engineer to help build and evolve our mobile experience across iOS and Android. This is a high-impact role for an experienced React Native engineer who wants to shape a meaningful consumer product from the inside. You will work closely with Product, Design, Data, Backend Engineering, and newsroom stakeholders to create a fast, reliable, engaging, and intuitive mobile experience for readers. You will help define how mobile supports personalization, subscriptions, notifications, audience engagement, performance, accessibility, and long-term product growth. The ideal candidate is both a strong hands-on engineer and a thoughtful product partner who cares deeply about user experience, technical quality, and mission-driven work. This role is not eligible for relocation, visa sponsorship, or fully remote work.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building production mobile applications with React Native.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Experience developing for both iOS and Android environments.
• Understanding of mobile app lifecycle, deployment, app store processes, and release management.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs and working with modern backend systems.
• Familiarity with state management patterns such as Redux, Context API, or similar approaches.
• Strong understanding of mobile performance optimization, debugging, testing, and observability.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, design, data, and editorial teams.
• A product-minded approach to engineering and a genuine interest in building excellent user experiences.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Expo and modern React Native tooling.
• Experience with analytics, engagement platforms, push notifications, or in-app messaging.
• Familiarity with experimentation, A/B testing, personalization, or subscription products.
• Knowledge of mobile accessibility, security, and performance best practices.
• Experience in media, news, consumer subscription, marketplace, or other high-scale digital product environments.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures or AWS-based ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain cross-platform mobile applications using React Native.
• Own significant mobile features from technical planning through implementation, release, and iteration.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to translate user needs and mobile UX patterns into polished, accessible experiences.
• Partner with Backend and Data teams to integrate APIs, analytics, personalization, and engagement tools.
• Improve mobile performance, debugging, monitoring, and production reliability.
• Contribute to mobile architecture, engineering standards, CI/CD practices, and release processes.
• Troubleshoot production issues and use data, observability, and user feedback to improve the app experience.
• Mentor other engineers and help raise the quality of mobile development across the team.

Benefits

• This role is not eligible for corporate bonus opportunity.
• We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equitable across the board.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed