Skydio
Senior Software Engineer, React Native
$190K–$250K
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building and shipping customer-facing mobile applications; substantial depth in React Native.
About the job
Build and lead development of a cross-platform React Native mobile app delivering video, telemetry, maps, and collaboration for drone pilots, first responders, and other users.
What you'll do
- Develop and improve mobile UI/UX, including video- and map-based experiences and multi-drone operation features.
- Set architectural patterns for shared components, navigation, state management, testing, CI/CD, and performance.
- Own features from prototype to rollout, and collaborate with autonomy and cloud teams using field feedback.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building and shipping customer-facing mobile applications, with substantial React Native experience.
- Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
- Strong Swift and/or Kotlin skills, including writing or maintaining native modules.
- Experience designing for performance, reliability, and usability, and building real-time, data-intensive features integrated with external APIs and services.
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time video streaming, geospatial visualization, 3D tooling, robotics or hardware-connected apps, or Expo and modern React Native tooling.
- Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows and interest in advancing them.
Pay
$190,000 - $250,000 USD base salary
Tools
React Native, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Swift, Kotlin, WebRTC, LiveKit
AI focus
The role builds mobile interfaces for autonomous-drone operations; AI-assisted development workflows are a preferred area of comfort and interest.
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