Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Angel Studios is hiring a Senior Mobile App Engineer to build and improve its iOS and Android apps using React Native. The role owns mobile features end-to-end, with a focus on streaming playback, content discovery, engagement, performance, and reliable delivery.
Responsibilities
- Build and elevate the Angel Studios mobile app experience—and push it beyond what streaming apps do today
- Own features end-to-end – Take full ownership of major areas of the Angel Studios mobile app, from technical design through launch and iteration, across discovery, playback, and user engagement
- Drive streaming excellence at scale – Deliver a seamless, high-quality playback experience with fast startup times, minimal buffering, adaptive streaming, and resilient offline playback
- Build best-in-class discovery and engagement experiences – Implement intuitive browsing, search, recommendations, and personalized content experiences that rival top-tier streaming platforms
- Build for performance and reliability – Write scalable, maintainable React Native (Expo + TypeScript) code that performs across a wide range of devices and network conditions, and contribute to the app’s architectural direction
- Leverage modern mobile delivery systems – Work within and improve our Expo-based workflows, including over-the-air (OTA) updates, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes so we ship quickly and safely
- Ship fast and iterate constantly – Build features like downloads, offline mode, notifications, and membership flows through rapid experimentation and continuous iteration
- Solve complex mobile challenges – Tackle issues across video playback, background downloads, offline sync, push notifications, and app lifecycle management
- Measure and improve what matters – Instrument and track key metrics (startup time, buffering rate, crash-free sessions, engagement, retention) and use data to guide your decisions
- Raise the bar through code – Conduct high-quality code reviews, share knowledge generously, and help teammates grow while staying deeply hands-on
- Improve how the team works – Contribute to better tooling, testing, CI/CD, and shared patterns that make everyone more productive
Skills
- Builder mindset with product ownership – You think like an owner, not just an implementer—caring about the outcome for the user, not only the ticket
- Deep React Native expertise – Strong experience building and scaling production mobile apps using React Native and TypeScript
- Solid mobile architecture skills – Ability to design features and systems that balance performance, scalability, and developer experience
- Experience with modern mobile tooling – Familiarity with Expo, OTA updates, mobile CI/CD pipelines, and release processes
- Performance and reliability focus – You care deeply about app responsiveness, crash rates, and user experience details
- Experiment-driven mindset – Experience using A/B tests and metrics to guide product and engineering decisions
- Strong collaboration and communication – Ability to work closely with product, design, and backend engineers and clearly communicate tradeoffs
- Ownership and initiative – You proactively identify problems and drive solutions end-to-end
- Adaptability and speed – Comfort working in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities
- Generosity with knowledge – You elevate others through code review, pairing, and shared standards
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years building mobile applications
- 3+ years of React Native experience in production environments
- Strong experience with TypeScript and modern frontend architecture
- Proven track record of shipping complex, consumer-facing app features
- Experience working on apps with real users at scale
- Must be authorized to work in the United States
- Streaming/media experience (or similar complexity) – Understanding of video playback, buffering, caching, or other performance-critical systems is highly valuable
- Experience with Expo and OTA update systems
- Experience building streaming or media-heavy applications
- Experience implementing push notifications and engagement systems
- Experience with subscription/membership flows (in-app purchases, payments, auth)
- Experience with analytics, observability, and performance monitoring tools
- Background in high-performance or resource-constrained environments
- Experience with native iOS (Swift) or Android (Kotlin) development
- Familiarity with the Angel Guild
Benefits
- Hybrid/Remote options available
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