Senior Software Engineer, React Native

Skydio•San Mateo, CA

7d•$190,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Skydio is seeking a Senior React Native Engineer to lead the development of real-time, high-impact mobile applications. These applications are used by first responders, drone pilots, mission commanders, and the public. The role involves shaping the future of drones as critical infrastructure by building intuitive, resilient, high-performance interfaces that deliver mission-critical video, telemetry, and collaboration at the edge. This position offers significant architectural latitude, allowing the engineer to make foundational decisions about the cross-platform app's structure and witness the impact of their work in real-world, high-pressure scenarios.

Requirements

5+ years building and shipping customer-facing mobile applications, with substantial depth in React Native
Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, and GraphQL
Strong development skills in Swift and/or Kotlin, with real experience writing or maintaining native modules rather than only consuming them
Proven ability to design systems that scale for performance, reliability, and usability — and the diagnostic skill to find out why they don't
Experience building real-time, data-intensive features and integrating with external APIs and services
Strong product intuition and empathy for end users operating in high-stakes environments
Demonstrated experience working across teams to take complex, integrated features from concept to production
Comfort operating with ambiguity and a bias toward action

Nice To Haves

Experience with real-time video streaming (WebRTC, LiveKit, RTP/UDP pipelines, or similar)
Experience with geospatial data visualization (Mapbox, Cesium, or similar)
Experience with 3D tooling and matrix-based transformations (OpenGL, WebGL, WebGPU, Three.js, or similar)
Exposure to autonomy or robotics platforms, or any app that communicates directly with physical hardware over BLE, Wi-Fi, or a vendor SDK
Experience with Expo and modern React Native tooling, including the New Architecture (Fabric, TurboModules)
Experience extending a mobile codebase to another platform, such as React Native on macOS
Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows and an interest in pushing what's possible with them

Responsibilities

Innovate on UI/UX for Skydio's new cross-platform mobile app
Build video- and map-based experiences for a range of user personas
Improve app performance through tasteful use of native code versus TypeScript
Establish the patterns the app is built on: shared components, navigation and state management conventions, testing strategy, CI/CD, and performance budgets
Own features end to end, from early prototype through customer rollout, with release management, feature flagging, and observability in place
Enable first responders to run complex multi-drone operations with ease
Collaborate with the autonomy and cloud teams, and iterate on features using feedback from the field