Sr. React Native Engineer

Vivid Seats • Toronto, ON

45d • $135,000 - $165,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior React Native Engineer, you'll be at the center of how millions of fans experience live events — from the moment they search for a ticket to the second they walk through the gate. You'll shape the architecture of Vivid Seats' flagship mobile app and the APIs powering it, working on the full cross-platform stack with real influence over product direction. You'll partner directly with product, design, and engineering leaders to ship experiences that matter to real people on game day.
How your role contributes to the success of Vivid Seats:
Own the mobile platform - set the technical direction for the front-end systems at the heart of our ticket marketplace.
Build what's next - architecting experiments and innovative features that give Vivid Seats a competitive edge, from AI-powered discovery to seamless checkout flows.
Move the needle - tackle hard e-commerce scaling challenges and ship creative solutions that drive measurable value across the org.
Raise the bar - champion best practices, mentor engineers through pairing and code reviews, and push the craft forward for your whole team.
Work cross functionally - collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver real impact, iteratively and with intention.
Bring new perspective - your unique insights will help shape how we grow.
How your role expectations will progress as a React Native Engineer in the first 30, 90, and 180 days:
30 days in
Complete new hire orientation, gaining the resources you need to be successful.
Learn how ticket marketplaces operate and how you’ll contribute to providing great experiences for our customers.
Acclimate to team and company norms, business objectives, and Vivid Seats values.
Develop basic understanding of applications, tech stack, and development process.
90 days in
Contribute to our approaches, methods, or technologies to support overall business goals and drive team efficiencies.
Cultivate and maintain internal and external relationships to achieve progress and advance objectives.
Contribute to team planning, estimations, and design sessions.
180 days in
Apply methods to execute individual tasks that positively impacts the team.
Play an active role in continued learnings to advance skill sets necessary for team goals.
Have self-sufficiency in all codebases touched by the team.
Actively contribute to larger team and engineering group objectives.
Produce and deliver clean, correct code that drives team and company tech goals forward.

Requirements

• 7+ years professional experience building applications in React Native or React
• You've developed and shipped user-facing features using component-based UI frameworks.
• Experience designing, building, and testing modern web or cross-platform mobile solutions as part of an agile or cross-functional team
• Experience with client-side application state libraries (Redux, RTK)
• Strong knowledge of front-end languages (JavaScript, TypeScript)
• A proactive mindset toward embracing, experimenting, and integrating AI tools to drive efficiency, elevate your work, and contribute to a culture of innovation.

Nice To Haves

• Native iOS and/or Android development experience preferred
• Exposure to server-side web technologies (Node, Express, Java, Spring) (preferred, not required)
• Experience with JavaScript/Typescript testing frameworks (Mocha, Jest, Enzyme, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Own the mobile platform - set the technical direction for the front-end systems at the heart of our ticket marketplace.
• Build what's next - architecting experiments and innovative features that give Vivid Seats a competitive edge, from AI-powered discovery to seamless checkout flows.
• Move the needle - tackle hard e-commerce scaling challenges and ship creative solutions that drive measurable value across the org.
• Raise the bar - champion best practices, mentor engineers through pairing and code reviews, and push the craft forward for your whole team.
• Work cross functionally - collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver real impact, iteratively and with intention.
• Bring new perspective - your unique insights will help shape how we grow.

Benefits

• Full time offers from Vivid Seats include annual bonus incentives and equity for all employees; FLEX PTO; mental health days; medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401K matching; monthly credits and discounts for attending live events; and a variety of additional workplace perks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees