Senior Front End Engineer

Flashfood • Canada, KY

3d • Remote

About The Position

Our company is on a mission to reduce food waste and make high-quality, affordable food accessible to everyone. Through our innovative app-based marketplace, we connect shoppers with discounted perishable items while helping retailers turn would-be waste into revenue and meaningful environmental impact. We’re growing quickly across North America and partnering with retailers of all sizes to expand our reach.
If you’re passionate about creating real change for people and the planet, we’d love for you to join us. Your work here will directly contribute to a mission that helps families save money, reduces waste, and builds a more sustainable future.
What We're Looking For
We’re hiring a hands-on Senior Engineer with deep React Native experience to own and evolve high-impact mobile features across iOS and Android. You’ll be a TypeScript expert focused primarily on our React Native application, contributing to mobile architecture, performance, and reliability.
This is a senior individual contributor role - you’ll write production code daily, mentor engineers within the mobile team, and partner closely with Product and Design to deliver high-quality customer experiences.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years of hands-on React Native mobile development.
• Strong expertise in TypeScript and modern React patterns.
• Deep experience shipping production React Native apps across iOS and Android.
• Experience with state management libraries (e.g., React Query, Zustand or similar).
• Proficiency in working within the Expo ecosystem
• Experience in building and integrating custom native modules.
• Proven ability to optimize mobile performance (rendering, memory usage, startup time).
• Experience with mobile CI/CD pipelines, app store release processes, and crash monitoring and observability tools.
• Strong understanding of UI/UX best practices, mobile security fundamentals, error handling, logging, and data persistence.
• Demonstrated mentorship experience and strong communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Kotlin, Compose Multi Platform
• Experience contributing to web frontends (e.g., Next.js, TypeScript).
• Experience working in retail or marketplace platforms with real-time inventory, store-level operations, and high-volume, rapidly changing data.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Delivery
• Own and deliver complex React Native features from technical design through production release across iOS and Android that support a growing user base, evolving product requirements, and real-world mobile constraints.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested TypeScript code with strong attention to performance and user experience.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, including crashes, regressions, and platform-specific edge cases.
• Mobile Architecture & Technical Design
• Contribute to scalable mobile architecture decisions, including state management, navigation, API and tool integrations, and feature modularization.
• Improve codebase maintainability by reducing technical debt and promoting reusable, well-structured components.
• Apply performance, accessibility, and platform best practices to deliver smooth, consistent user experiences.
• Developer Experience & Reliability
• Improve team-level mobile workflows, testing practices, and release processes.
• Instrument applications with meaningful logging, monitoring, and crash reporting.
• Participate in incident response and contribute to root cause analysis and preventative improvements.
• Collaboration & Technical Leadership
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through thoughtful code reviews and design discussions.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to translate requirements into scalable mobile solutions.
• Identify technical risks early and communicate clear tradeoffs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.
• 100% remote work with flexibility and trust.
• Mission-driven work that reduces food waste and expands access to affordable food.
• A fast-growing, collaborative team with big ambitions.
• Real opportunities for career growth and professional development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed