Senior Software Engineer, React Native

Skydio
San Mateo
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 190,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Product intuition","Empathy","Collaboration","Bias toward action","Operating with ambiguity"]

Build and scale Skydio’s cross-platform React Native mobile apps for mission-critical drone operations. You’ll design UI/UX, create video- and map-based experiences, and improve performance by knowing when to use native Swift/Kotlin with native modules. Own features end to end from prototype to rollout with testing, CI/CD, observability, and release management, collaborating with autonomy and cloud teams. You’ll help enable complex multi-drone workflows under real field constraints.

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Senior Software Engineer, React Native

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Job Summary

Build and scale Skydio’s cross-platform React Native mobile apps for mission-critical drone operations. You’ll design UI/UX, create video- and map-based experiences, and improve performance by knowing when to use native Swift/Kotlin with native modules. Own features end to end from prototype to rollout with testing, CI/CD, observability, and release management, collaborating with autonomy and cloud teams. You’ll help enable complex multi-drone workflows under real field constraints.
Location: San Mateo
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Innovate on UI/UX for Skydio’s new cross-platform mobile app.
  • •Build video- and map-based experiences for multiple user personas.
  • •Improve app performance using native code versus TypeScript, when appropriate.
  • •Establish app architecture patterns for shared components, navigation/state management, testing, CI/CD, and performance budgets.
  • •Own features end to end from prototype through customer rollout with release management, feature flagging, and observability.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 190,000 - 250,000 annually
Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid LeaveHoliday Pay

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years building and shipping customer-facing mobile applications with substantial depth in React Native.
  • •Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
  • •Strong development skills in Swift and/or Kotlin, including writing or maintaining native modules.
  • •Ability to design systems that scale for performance, reliability, and usability, with diagnostic skills to resolve issues.
  • •Experience building real-time, data-intensive features and integrating with external APIs and services.
Experience:5+ yearsMobile applicationsReal-time systemsAPI integration
Skills:Product intuitionEmpathyCollaborationBias toward actionOperating with ambiguity
Licenses:FAA Part 107
Tech Stack:React NativeReactTypeScriptGraphQLSwiftKotlinCI/CDWebRTCLiveKitRTP/UDPMapboxCesiumOpenGLWebGLWebGPUThree.jsExpoFabricTurboModulesBLE

Company Brief

Skydio
Designs and manufactures autonomous consumer and enterprise drones using AI-powered vision and navigation systems for inspection, mapping, public safety, and industrial applications. Focuses on rugged, fully autonomous flight and end-to-end drone solutions.
Industry: Drones & Aerial Logistics
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2014
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