Principal Software Engineer (React Native)

Location: Serbia — virtual. The role requires legal authorization to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Company

hirify.global develops API-first digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions for financial institutions.

What you will do

• Design and develop configurable, extensible, and pluggable React Native mobile applications.
• Partner with Product Management and UX/UI Design to deliver accessible and intuitive mobile banking experiences.
• Collaborate with server-side engineers to design and integrate RESTful APIs.
• Drive architectural decisions, assess technical risks, and evaluate downstream impacts with Enterprise Architects and engineering leads.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, testing, troubleshooting, production support, and performance optimization.
• Build native iOS and Android integrations and support mobile CI/CD, release management, and app publishing.

Requirements

• 7–10 years of software engineering experience with extensive React Native experience and production mobile application delivery.
• Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift or Objective-C, and Kotlin or Java.
• Experience with mobile architecture, component design, authentication flows, RESTful services, and secure application development.
• Experience developing automated unit and end-to-end tests with Playwright or comparable frameworks.
• Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, mobile CI/CD pipelines, App Store Connect, TestFlight, Google Play Console, Firebase, Azure, and Bitrise or comparable tools.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Experience with NativeBase or Tamagui.
• Experience building digital banking, fintech, SaaS, or other highly regulated mobile products.
• Technical leadership across enterprise-scale mobile platforms and distributed engineering teams.
• Experience establishing reusable mobile frameworks, engineering standards, or developer enablement practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an Agile software development environment.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Product Management, UX/UI Design, and distributed engineering teams.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude and Cursor while maintaining quality, security, and engineering standards.
• Contribute to reusable patterns, technical documentation, and developer enablement practices.