Mobile Engineer — React Native
About Playabl
Playabl is the platform for user-generated games. Creators make games by chatting with AI, publish them, and players discover them in a feed.
We're a small team backed by Y Combinator, with millions of plays across tens of thousands of user-generated games, all organic. We're remote-first and looking for builders who care about craft, speed, and great mobile UX.
About the Role
We're looking for a product-minded Mobile Engineer to help shape Playabl's React Native app. You'll work on core surfaces — discovery, creation, play, sharing, and onboarding — and care deeply about performance, polish, and shipping. You move fast, debug independently, and are comfortable using modern AI tools as part of your daily workflow. Android native experience is a strong plus, especially around startup time, scrolling, memory, and low-end device optimization.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship React Native features end-to-end across our consumer app
- Improve performance, stability, responsiveness, and release quality
- Collaborate with design, backend, and product to turn ideas into shipped experiences
- Integrate web-based interactive content into the mobile experience where needed
- Use analytics, crash reports, and user feedback to prioritize fixes
- Help evolve our mobile architecture as we scale
Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional software engineering, ideally on consumer mobile products
- Strong hands-on React Native and TypeScript / JavaScript experience
- Experience shipping production apps on iOS and/or Android
- Solid grasp of navigation, state management, API integration, and app store releases
- Strong ownership and product sense; comfortable in ambiguity
Preferred
- Android native (Kotlin / Java) and performance tuning experience
- Hybrid architectures: native modules, WebView, or bridges
- Consumer social, UGC, gaming, or feed-based products
- Familiarity with Firebase, Sentry, Amplitude, or similar tooling
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Remote-first team
- Health coverage where applicable