Senior Software Engineer- Contractor React Native

Job Description:

As a Stable Kernel Senior Software Engineer, you play an essential role in setting our portfolio of world-class clients up for success through the development and delivery of their most innovative, transformational initiatives. You will collaborate daily with other engineers and product team members, make decisions that influence the path of a product roadmap, leverage software development best practices, and become a more well-rounded engineer as you learn new technologies. Your knowledgeable practice, reliability, and consultative nature make you an engineer that stakeholders and teammates trust.

Core Responsibilities Include:

• Technical Impact: 
• Designing and implementing solutions with an eye to the growth of the product and team, improving the speed of future work, and preserving optionality without unnecessary complications.
• Providing expert feedback that improves the overall delivery of work and defending the work against compromise and corner-cutting by having the final say in codebase additions.
• Designing test strategies and having involvement in automated testing, continuous integration, and deployment processes for projects
  • Mentoring others in best practices.
  • Ensuring a high standard of quality across the project. 
  • Identifying, diagnosing, and resolving complex bugs and issues. 
• Business Alignment: 
• Understanding the client's business and goals and using them to improve the definition of teams’ projects.
• Identifying opportunities to provide additional value for our clients by suggesting and delivering improvements based on observations.
• Contributing to the estimation of work for high-level planning and costing that clearly identifies gaps, risks, and assumptions.
• Interacting with Others: 
• Coordinating with people outside your team, including product and design leadership.
• Influencing the roadmaps of other teams, especially to get work prioritized that’s required for your own team.
• Advising people across the Director and VP-levels of the organization.
• Reporting status for the whole team with a general understanding of where each member's work is.
• Autonomy & Ambiguity: 
• Designing and supporting long-term roadmaps with limited direction and requiring no direction on project plans.
• Considering and planning around cross-team dependencies to most effectively break down work across the team.
• Working within ambiguity to define and break down challenging projects (e.g., projects that are hard to derive benefits from until the end of the project, projects that are very large, or projects that have a lot of uncertainty or require novel solutions).
• Problem-Solving:
• Analyzing the effectiveness of decisions and demonstrating accountability for outcomes.
  • Making trade-offs between short-term and long-term solutions. 
  • Evaluating trade-offs others are making.
• Anticipating, recognizing, and mitigating risks to prevent potential roadblocks. 
• Escalating issues and bringing recommended solutions to the table.
• Leadership:
• Taking ownership and contributing to process improvements that positively impact the work.
• Advocating for best practices across your project or client program. 
• Mentoring junior and intermediate colleagues by helping them grow professionally.
  • Setting a positive example by using our company values and imperatives as a north star.
  • Providing regular constructive feedback.
  • Resolving conflicts.
  • Guiding less experienced colleagues through complex projects.
  • Leading team learning sessions.
• Leading projects.
  • Demonstrating strong project roadmapping skills, including planning, delegating, and monitoring progress. 
  • Making critical decisions and driving projects to successful completion.
  • Representing the team in client conversations.

Intimate, Working Familiarity With:

• Strong expertise with React Native, including advanced component architecture, performance optimization, native module integration, and deployment across iOS and Android platforms.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and other front-end languages and libraries.
• Some knowledge of Swift and Kotlin

General Requirements:

• 7-10 years of development experience with an emphasis on React Native development. 
• Experience with Expo and EAS.
• Experience automated testing.
• Experience with Native Module Integration.
• Experience with React Native Accessibility.
• Experience with common stack and cloud technologies. AWS or Azure notably.
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Nginx) and UI/UX design.
• Degree in Computer Science or relevant field or experience. 
• An eye for visual design and utility.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with iOS development, including Swift, UIKit, and SwiftUI and/or Android development, including Kotlin, Jetpack libraries, and Android Studio.

A Bit More Info:

Minimum Base Compensation Range: $ 80 per hour

This is a contract position.

Contract ends: February 20, 2026 

Stable Kernel operates a People Before Place Hybrid model, allowing most employees to choose where they can do their best work most days.

Minimal travel is associated with this role.