What You’ll Build
In this role, you will help create mobile experiences that make local journalism more accessible, useful, and habit-forming. Your work may include:
- Developing new reader-facing features in React Native for iOS and Android.
- Improving app performance, reliability, responsiveness, and stability.
- Building mobile-first experiences for content discovery, personalization, notifications, and reader engagement.
- Integrating with APIs, authentication systems, analytics platforms, push notification systems, and third-party services.
- Supporting experimentation, feature flagging, observability, and release management.
- Creating strong foundations for a scalable mobile platform as the product grows.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, test, and maintain cross-platform mobile applications using React Native.
- Own significant mobile features from technical planning through implementation, release, and iteration.
- Collaborate with Product and Design to translate user needs and mobile UX patterns into polished, accessible experiences.
- Partner with Backend and Data teams to integrate APIs, analytics, personalization, and engagement tools.
- Improve mobile performance, debugging, monitoring, and production reliability.
- Contribute to mobile architecture, engineering standards, CI/CD practices, and release processes.
- Troubleshoot production issues and use data, observability, and user feedback to improve the app experience.
- Mentor other engineers and help raise the quality of mobile development across the team.
What Success Looks Like
In this role, success means helping The Banner deliver a mobile experience that is fast, stable, intuitive, and valuable to readers. You will help strengthen the technical foundation of our mobile products, ship meaningful features, improve app quality, and contribute to a product culture that values experimentation, accessibility, performance, and reader trust.
Salary Range: $140,000 - $150,000. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors, including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. This role is not eligible for corporate bonus opportunity. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equitable across the board.