Senior Software Engineer (React Native)
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Summary
Senior React Native engineer at Skydio leads development of cross-platform mobile apps for drone pilots and first responders, building video, map, and collaboration interfaces with native code integration, GraphQL, and geospatial visualization.
- We’re looking for a Senior React Native Engineer to lead development of real-time, high-impact mobile applications used by first responders, drone pilots, mission commanders, and members of the public requesting a drone
- You’ll be a key contributor in shaping the future of drones as critical infrastructure — building intuitive, resilient, high-performance interfaces that deliver mission-critical video, telemetry, and collaboration at the edge
- This is a role with real architectural latitude
- You’ll make foundational decisions about how our cross-platform app is structured, and you’ll see the results in the field, where the people using what you build are operating under time pressure and can’t afford a dropped frame or a confusing screen
- Innovate on UI/UX for Skydio’s new cross-platform mobile app
- Build video- and map-based experiences for a range of user personas, from trained pilots to first-time public users
- Improve app performance through tasteful use of native code versus TypeScript — knowing when to drop into Swift or Kotlin and when not to
- Establish the patterns the app is built on: shared components, navigation and state management conventions, testing strategy, CI/CD, and performance budgets
- Own features end to end, from early prototype through customer rollout, with release management, feature flagging, and observability in place
- Enable first responders to run complex multi-drone operations with ease
- Collaborate with the autonomy and cloud teams, and iterate on features using feedback from the field
- Experience building real-time, data-intensive features and integrating with external APIs and services
- Strong development skills in Swift and/or Kotlin, with real experience writing or maintaining native modules rather than only consuming them
- Demonstrated experience working across teams to take complex, integrated features from concept to production
- 5+ years building and shipping customer-facing mobile applications, with substantial depth in React Native
- Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, and GraphQL
- Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions
- Comfort operating with ambiguity and a bias toward action
- Strong product intuition and empathy for end users operating in high-stakes environments
- Proven ability to design systems that scale for performance, reliability, and usability — and the diagnostic skill to find out why they don’t
- You don’t need to check every box. If you’re excited about this role and think you’d be a strong fit, we encourage you to apply — even if your experience doesn’t match every qualification listed above
- Experience with 3D tooling and matrix-based transformations (OpenGL, WebGL, WebGPU, Three.js, or similar)
- Experience with real-time video streaming (WebRTC, LiveKit, RTP/UDP pipelines, or similar)
- Experience extending a mobile codebase to another platform, such as React Native on macOS
- Experience with Expo and modern React Native tooling, including the New Architecture (Fabric, TurboModules)
- Exposure to autonomy or robotics platforms, or any app that communicates directly with physical hardware over BLE, Wi-Fi, or a vendor SDK
- Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows and an interest in pushing what’s possible with them
- Experience with geospatial data visualization (Mapbox, Cesium, or similar)