React Native Engineer
New York City, NY
Engineering /
Full Time /
On-site
Traba’s mission is to empower businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. Traba is a technology company that is revolutionizing the broken staffing industry through a marketplace that connects light industrial businesses with reliable talent while providing workers with flexible and meaningful opportunities. By connecting both, new levels of productivity, earning potential, and avenues for growth are unlocked. We’re proud to be backed by the world’s best investors, such as Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.
We are seeking a scrappy, entrepreneurial Senior React Native Engineer to join the founding team to help build the core worker experience in our mobile app. You'll partner with our CTO, the engineering team, and our design partners to deeply understand our workers' needs, set the product roadmap, and make key product & architecture decisions that will inform the our foundational tech platform.
About You:
- Voracious learner. You love diving into new areas and exploring new languages, frameworks, and technologies, and can discuss product with a UX designer one minute and deployment infrastructure with tech leads the next.
- Value clear communication. You recognize the importance of clear communication, documented planning, and transparent, frequent feedback.
- Sweat the small stuff. You have strong opinions on design patterns, IDEs, tabs vs. spaces—you understand that how you do one thing is how you do everything, so you care about the details.
- Deep expertise with React Native. You know all the ins and outs of React Native/Expo, are intimately familiar with deployment and release processes for the App/Play Stores, and have an arsenal of favorite tools and libraries (e.g. Reanimated, Moti, Lottie, and more) you love to bring to projects you work on.
You Will:
- Write & review high quality, performant code for our React Native mobile app
- Inform key product & infrastructure decisions, with an eye towards scalability
- Collaborate with designers to implement pixel-perfect, eye-pleasing UIs
- Add analytics & monitoring to help understand our user experience & application health
- Contribute in a ton of other ways to a scrappy founding team building the future of flexible light industrial staffing!
You Have:
- 5+ years experience with Typescript, Javascript, React Native
- Experience with Expo, Firebase Auth
- Experience working in an early-stage engineering team, working through ambiguity and being a self-starter
- A passion for helping people find meaningful work that works for them
Benefits:
- 100% healthcare, dental, and vision
- Early Equity in Traba
- Competitive Salary
- Dinner is provided at the office via Grubhub
- Fully-equipped snack bar
- Additional: One Medical Membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health
$140,000 - $180,000 a year
We offer competitive base compensation aligned to tier-one markets. As an early stage startup, a meaningful amount of total compensation is in our equity. Our estimated salary for this role at Traba ranges from $140,000 to $180,000. Actual pay is determined by multiple factors such as skills, qualifications, experience, and market demand.
Our Values
Dream BIG - We are on a path to change the world for the better. We create and communicate a bold direction that inspires a life-changing vision. We don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results.
Olympian’s Work Ethic - Changing the world never comes easy. We work harder, longer, and smarter, not just two out of three. We put everything we have on the field.
Growth Mindset - We confront the toughest challenges head-on and persevere. Sometimes we fail, but we brush ourselves off, adapt, learn, and push forward with resilience.
Customer Obsession - We go the extra mile for our workers and businesses. We remain focused on delivering high-quality products and services that solve these often overlooked communities’ problems.
What is light industrial labor?
Light industrial flexible staffing is a $40B labor market that encompasses entry-level jobs in warehouses & distribution centers. These workers pack boxes, load trucks, and manage warehouse operations to keep supply chains running at peak efficiency.
