Founding Mobile Engineer (React Native)

About the role

We're looking for a Founding Mobile Engineer to own and define the mobile experience at Nectar. You'll architect and build the mobile platform from the ground up, making foundational technical decisions that shape how we deliver AI-powered social commerce to brand teams. This is a highly autonomous role with direct influence over product direction and engineering standards. You'll work closely with product, design, and leadership to ship features that bring Nectar's AI capabilities directly into the hands of customers.

Responsibilities

• Own the mobile platform end-to-end, architecting, building, and shipping our React Native application across iOS and Android
• Build AI-powered mobile experiences that surface insights, power real-time agent interactions, and bring Nectar's AI capabilities to mobile
• Establish mobile architecture patterns, shared components, testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and performance standards
• Integrate with social platform APIs such as TikTok, Meta, and Instagram, as well as e-commerce systems like Shopify
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and founders to shape both the product experience and technical implementation
• Set a high bar for reliability and performance through monitoring, error tracking, and optimization

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in React Native
• Proven track record of shipping high-quality production mobile applications
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture, navigation patterns, state management, and platform-specific considerations
• Experience integrating with external APIs and building real-time, data-intensive features
• Comfortable working across the stack when needed in a fast-moving startup environment
• High ownership mindset with a bias toward action and comfort operating in ambiguity
• Strong product intuition and interest in shaping what gets built, not just how it gets built

Qualifications

• Experience with native iOS or Android development or bridging native modules
• Background in social media platforms, e-commerce systems, or commerce infrastructure
• Experience working with LLMs, AI agents, or machine learning-powered features in production
• Previous founding or early-stage startup experience
• Open-source contributions or notable side projects

Skills

• Software Engineering
• React Native
• Mobile Architecture
• AI/Machine Learning
• Product Design
• API Integration

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and early equity
• Health, vision, and dental benefits + 401(k) match
• Clear career growth opportunities as the company scales
• Free lunch in the heart of University Ave. in Palo Alto
• Deep exposure to cutting-edge AI tooling and the opportunity to shape how brands use it
• A collaborative, ambitious team defining a new category of AI-native marketing infrastructure

Pay

Compensation Range: $200K - $400K

Schedule

Full-time