Senior Product Engineer, React Native + Backend

• Audit the React Native + Expo mobile app and the HomeBase admin flows.

• Review the backend and API structure, the Postgres data models, and the business logic around bookings, guests, cancellations, refunds, credits, and notifications.

• Trace the payment path (Stripe) and the automation / data-integration layer (n8n-style workflows and reverse-ETL) for fragility and silent-failure points.

• Identify technical debt, broken workflows, security gaps, stale code, and missing tests.

• Review Linear and project artifacts, and compare planned work against what actually shipped.

• Produce a prioritized technical recovery plan.

• Ship or supervise one small but meaningful stabilization fix during the trial.

• Recommend the exact team needed to continue: mobile, backend, data, QA, or design.
  

• Senior or staff-level full-stack experience shipping production React Native + TypeScript apps.

• Strong backend experience building and operating GraphQL APIs on a relational database (Postgres or similar), deployed on a cloud provider. We run AWS + Supabase.

• Hands-on Stripe across subscriptions, refunds, invoices, webhooks, and reconciliation, integrated into backend services (ours run on AWS).

• You've worked inside messy, partially-migrated, lightly-tested systems and brought order without freezing delivery.

• You make fast, pragmatic judgment calls in unfamiliar code and explain them clearly to a non-technical founder.

• Comfort working without perfect specs.
  

• Experience with Metabase or analytics cleanup

• Experience migrating away from NativeBase, NativeWind, or inconsistent styling systems

• Experience with mobile release pipelines, QA automation, push notifications, and email workflows

• Prior startup rescue, code audit, or fractional CTO experience

• Expo and EAS builds in production, with manual store submission (no OTA).

• Apollo Client and GraphQL on the front end.

• Supabase specifically (Auth, Postgres, Storage).

• Automation glue and reverse-ETL: n8n, Hightouch, Airflow, or similar.

• Stripe in a booking, marketplace, or membership context.

• Mobile observability and E2E testing: Sentry, PostHog, Maestro.

• Metabase or analytics cleanup.

• Migrating away from NativeBase, NativeWind, or inconsistent styling systems.

• Untangling a codebase mid-rewrite (legacy and new trees coexisting in production).

• Prior startup rescue or code-audit experience.
  

• Recovery roadmap

• Technical debt triage

• Recommended architecture changes

• Test and QA priorities

• One shipped stabilization improvement, or a verified implementation plan
  

Details
Type: Contract (4 to 6 weeks, option to extend) Location: Remote, US Compensation: Candidate-proposed hourly or weekly rate Eligibility: Eligible to work in the US

How to Apply
Apply through the link below. You'll be asked to share work samples, relevant experience, your availability, and to answer one short screening question:

Describe a production system you inherited that had a single point of failure: a sole owner, a fragile integration, no monitoring, or no tests. What did you stabilize first, and why that one?

Alongside your answer, upload a visual representation of that work: a system map, architecture diagram, data-flow sketch, or whiteboard photo of the system you describe. It can be rough. We want to see how you picture a system, not only how you write about it.

Base is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.