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About the Job

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.***

What You’ll Build

In this role, you will help create mobile experiences that make local journalism more accessible, useful, and habit-forming. Your work may include:

• Developing new reader-facing features in React Native for iOS and Android.
• Improving app performance, reliability, responsiveness, and stability.
• Building mobile-first experiences for content discovery, personalization, notifications, and reader engagement.
• Integrating with APIs, authentication systems, analytics platforms, push notification systems, and third-party services.
• Supporting experimentation, feature flagging, observability, and release management.
• Creating strong foundations for a scalable mobile platform as the product grows.

What You’ll Do

• 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.