Senior React Native Software Engineer

Senior React Native Engineer, AI Products Mobile Platform

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Location: Austin, TX

About the Role

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

Mobile Product Development

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

AI-Enabled Product Experiences

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

AI-Assisted Engineering Practices

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

Architecture Performance

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

Quality Collaboration

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

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits Perks at inKind

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.

Health Wellness

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

Time Away Flexibility

Unlimited Paid Time Off

9 paid company holidays annually

Generous parental leave and child care benefits

Growth Development

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

Food Lifestyle Perks

Daily catered lunches and office snacks

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