Staff React Native Engineer, Vida Health

• Bachelors degree at a minimum
• 7+ years of direct relevant experience
• Deep expertise in React Native, with a history of building large-scale, multi-platform applications
• Experience architecting large React/React Native codebases (monorepo, shared packages, design system libraries) with clear boundaries and layering
• Proven ability to lead complex re-platforming or greenfield rebuilds
• Strong knowledge of performance profiling and platform internals (Hermes, Fabric, animations, native modules, bundle optimization)
• Ability to design maintainable component systems and UI foundations that scale for years
• Experience partnering closely with Product Design on complex component workflows and UX systems
• Familiarity with UI component libraries (MUI, Tailwind, Chakra, etc.) and responsive design
• Familiarity with modern tooling: TypeScript, ESLint/Prettier, Jest/RTL/Detox, Storybook, metro optimizations
• Strong technical communication, cross-team influencing ability and independent IC leadership

Desirable

• Vida is looking for a Staff React Native Engineer to lead the technical direction of our next-generation member experience across mobile and web
• You will spearhead the re-imagination of our current native mobile app and React web portal into a unified React Native platform that powers iOS, Android and Web. You will be the technical north star for Vida 2.0, redefining how members experience obesity and chronic care across platforms
• You will partner directly with Product, Design and clinical leaders to turn a highly configurable, AI-driven care model into a simple, elegant member journey. This is a rebuild from the ground up: you will influence architecture, tooling, hiring and how customer-facing experiences ship for years to come
• This is a high-impact, independent IC role. You will architect the foundations of a scalable, premium, component-driven application with best-in-class UX, accessibility, developer experience and operational excellence
• Lead the architecture and technical direction for a new cross-platform React Native codebase (iOS, Android, Web)
• Define patterns for state management, navigation and data fetching (e.g., React Query/TanStack, Zustand/Redux, React Navigation) and drive consistent adoption
• Collaborate on a design-system approach (theming, component library, tokens) enabling fast, consistent assembly of new member experiences
• Design and evolve a modular, configuration-driven architecture that supports multiple client configurations (benefits, rules, branding) on one codebase
• Work closely with UX to translate design vision into performant, accessible, premium-quality UI
• Define patterns for analytics, logging, instrumentation and feature flags to support safe experimentation and deep behavioral insights
• Create patterns for A/B tests and gradual rollouts across mobile and web
• Partner with SRE/Backend to ensure strong observability (error tracking, crash analytics, performance monitoring) and clear member experience SLAs
• Establish best-in-class developer experience and CI/CD, enabling safe, fast, multi-platform releases
• Define and champion engineering standards: code quality, testing, documentation, practice review
• Partner with QA to enable automation hooks and build testable, predictable interfaces
• Mentor and level up the entire frontend org, including RN best practices, system design and maintainable component paradigms
• Play a key role in hiring: define the senior/frontend bar, interview candidates and help onboard new team members
• Model a design-partner mindset, using real-time prototyping and collaborative iteration with cross-functional peers