Senior React Native Developer

In doing so, you help manage client expectations and project scope, ensuring we build the most valuable features first.</p><p>In addition, you:</p><ol><li>Set and communicate technical direction for the mobile codebase (patterns, standards, and tradeoffs).</li><li>Own architecture and technical planning for features end-to-end (mobile + API integration), documenting decisions as needed.</li><li>Proactively manage technical debt through refactoring proposals and incremental improvements.</li><li>Mentor via pair programming, raising quality and consistency across the team.</li><li>Work effectively within enterprise constraints (security/compliance, access controls, release gates, device/testing requirements).</li><li>Collaborate with client stakeholders across product, QA, backend, and platform teams to drive alignment and delivery.</li><li>Make pragmatic technical decisions optimized for long-term maintainability, reliability, and incremental delivery.</li><li>Practicing "craft within context" and working with teammates to receive advice and guidance to grow your knowledge.</li><li>Assisting with development critiques through QA and pull request (PR) reviews.</li></ol><p><em>Help us make a difference, make waves, and make Headway!</em></p><h2>Expectations</h2><ul><li>You live by our <a href="http://headway.io/about">Guiding Manifesto</a> and embody the core values of Headway.</li><li>You are open to criticism from your team and are always eager to learn and to share knowledge.</li><li>You have the ability to think big while being detail-oriented and delivery-focused.</li><li>You are self-motivated and able to deal with pressure and work well in a fast-paced environment.</li><li>You have an outgoing, personable, and sociable attitude.</li><li>You have the initiative to solve challenges, meet goals, and set new directions based on data.</li><li>You are capable of inspiring colleagues and clients.</li><li>You have a passion to create useful and valuable solutions.</li><li>You prioritize and attend our team weeks in Wisconsin, or at an awesome TBD destination.</li></ul><h2>What Does Success Look Like?</h2><p><strong>In the first 30 days:</strong></p><ul><li>Ramp into the codebase, tooling, environments, and release process.</li><li>Build relationships across the embedded Headway team and client stakeholders.</li><li>Ship several small improvements in the mobile codebase.</li></ul><p><strong>By 60-90 days:</strong></p><ul><li>Independently own a meaningful feature area and drive delivery with clear tradeoffs.</li><li>Improve quality and reliability through tests, code review standards, and pragmatic refactors.</li><li>Strengthen the feedback loop between product intent, implementation, QA, and release readiness.<br /></li></ul><h2>Requirements</h2><ul><li>3+ years of paid, professional mobile development experience, including 1–2+ years with React Native.</li><li>Experience with or willingness to learn native iOS and Android.</li><li>Experience submitting and deploying apps to the App Store and Play Store.</li><li>Experience with full-stack technologies like Ruby on Rails, Phoenix/Elixir, or Node, a big plus.</li><li>Experience building using an atomic design system toolkit/set of well-organized and documented components.</li><li>Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).</li><li>The ability to present your work and stand firm for the right reasons.<br /></li></ul><h2>AI-native development at Headway</h2><ul><li>You actively use AI to plan, build, and test software — and can explain what you delegated, what you verified, and why.</li><li>You can work effectively with AI pair-programming tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Tidewave, and similar agentic/code-assisted workflows.</li><li>You can turn product intent into high-signal prompts/artifacts (user stories, acceptance criteria, edge cases, architecture notes) that an AI-assisted workflow can execute against — including reviewing existing docs/code before kicking off the work.</li><li>You are comfortable planning/chatting in Claude Code (or equivalent) as a starting point for feature work; you may also use project management tooling if helpful.</li><li>You treat AI outputs as drafts: you validate correctness (tests, types, runtime checks), security/privacy implications, accessibility, and performance.</li><li>You can set up and maintain an AI-assisted feedback loop:<ul><li>Scaffolding changes rapidly</li><li>Generating test cases (unit, integration, E2E) and translating them into real tests</li><li>Running CI locally</li><li>Debugging with logs/traces</li><li>Feeding errors/logs/plans back into AI to continue the loop</li><li>Iterating with small diffs and frequent commits</li></ul></li><li>You have good judgment about where AI helps vs. hurts (e.g., critical logic, security boundaries, unfamiliar codepaths) and can articulate tradeoffs.</li><li>You can operate within real client constraints: IP/privacy boundaries, regulated data, and “bring your own model/tooling” limitations.</li></ul><h2>The Hiring Process</h2><p>If after we review your application and we choose to move forward, the following interviews will typically take place over the course of 1-3 weeks (depending on scheduling):</p><ul><li>Work history and aspirations chat with our People and Team Strategist (30 min).</li><li>AI-native skills screen with a Development Lead (30 min).</li><li>Live AI-assisted interview (60–90 min).</li><li>Group interview with several members of the Headway team (45 min).</li><li>Assessment exercise (1-2 hr).</li></ul><h2>AI-native skills screen</h2><p>A practical conversation about how you use AI in real delivery work.</p><ul><li>Walk through a recent feature where you used tools like Claude Code/Codex/Tidewave (or equivalents): what you prompted, what you changed by hand, how you verified correctness.</li><li>How you prevent “AI-assisted” regressions: tests, types, linters, CI, release discipline.</li><li>How you keep client/workspace data safe while using AI tools.<br /></li></ul><h2>Live AI-assisted interview</h2><p>You’ll drive on your own machine/setup/config while pairing with an agent/harness of your choice and an observing Headway dev, who is also available for collaboration.<br /></p><ul><li>Use AI freely (Claude Code/Codex/Tidewave/etc.) to plan and execute.</li><li>Build a small feature in a minimal repo with:<ul><li>Clear acceptance criteria</li><li>At least one meaningful unit test</li><li>A manual QA script and an accessibility checklist for the feature</li></ul></li><li>We’ll look for:<ul><li>How you review docs/code before starting</li><li>How you turn plans + errors/logs into the next AI prompt</li><li>How you validate correctness and avoid regressions</li><li>How you communicate tradeoffs and scope in real time</li></ul></li></ul><h2>Next Steps</h2><p>If this sounds like you, we’d love to have you apply!</p><br/><br/>Please mention the word **INTELLIGENCE** and tag RMTQxLjIyNy4xNDguMTI5 when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTQxLjIyNy4xNDguMTI5).