Lead React Native Developer

At Nextiva, we’re reimagining how businesses connect, bringing together customer experience and team collaboration on a single, conversation centric platform. Powered by AI, driven by human innovation.

Our culture is forward thinking, customer obsessed and built on the belief that meaningful connections drive better business outcomes. Whether it’s through our signature Amazing Service®, the technology we create, or the experiences we cultivate, connection is at the core of who we are.

If you’re ready to collaborate with incredible people, make an impact, and help businesses everywhere deliver truly amazing experiences, this is where you belong.

Location: This is an onsite role based at Nextiva’s Bengaluru office (Wilshire III by MFAR, 492, Hobli, RHB Colony, Mahadevapura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560048). Working together onsite strengthens how we operate, enabling faster decisions, clearer communication, and stronger execution, so you can make a greater impact and move work forward with speed and clarity. 

• →Design, build, release, and maintain high-quality cross-platform mobile applications using React Native and TypeScript
• →Lead complex mobile features from technical design and architecture through implementation, testing, release, and production support
• →Design scalable mobile architecture and reusable components that support long-term product development
• →Build and evolve VoIP, calling, mobile calling integrations, and related voice capabilities
• →Integrate mobile applications with REST and GraphQL APIs, authentication systems, third-party services, and backend platforms
• →Build reliable experiences involving state management, offline functionality, push notifications, and complex application workflows
• →Identify and resolve mobile performance, reliability, security, and scalability challenges
• →Debug complex production issues across iOS and Android environments
• →Develop and maintain automated tests and monitoring practices that improve application quality
• →Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and reliable mobile build and release processes
• →Conduct thoughtful code reviews and help establish engineering standards and best practices
• →Mentor junior engineers and support the technical growth of the broader engineering team
• →Partner closely with product, design, backend, QA, and engineering leadership to turn product requirements into scalable technical solutions
• →Evaluate technical tradeoffs and communicate decisions clearly across engineering and cross-functional teams
• →Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve engineering productivity while maintaining strong standards for code quality, security, testing, and technical judgment

• 5–8 years of software development experience
• At least 3 years of hands-on React Native experience
• Strong expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and cross-platform mobile development
• Hands-on experience building VoIP/calling features or mobile calling integrations, with an understanding of the performance, reliability, and user-experience considerations involved in delivering production-grade voice capabilities on iOS and Android
• Experience designing scalable mobile application architecture and reusable component libraries
• Proven experience building, releasing, and maintaining applications for both iOS and Android
• Strong knowledge of REST/GraphQL APIs, authentication, state management, offline support, push notifications, and third-party integrations
• Experience with mobile performance optimization, security, automated testing, monitoring, and production debugging
• Good understanding of Xcode, Android Studio, native build systems, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex features from technical design through production release
• Experience conducting code reviews, defining engineering standards, and mentoring junior engineers
• Experience using AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, or similar tools responsibly
• Strong communication, technical decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration skills

We’re looking for engineers who know how to use AI as an effective development tool while maintaining strong engineering judgment.

• Use AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, or similar tools to accelerate appropriate parts of the software development lifecycle.
• Apply sound technical judgment when reviewing, testing, securing, and validating AI-assisted code rather than relying on generated output without verification.
• Identify opportunities where AI can improve developer productivity, debugging, technical exploration, documentation, or other engineering workflows.

• Working knowledge of Swift, Kotlin, or native-module development
• Experience with Expo, Firebase, Sentry, Crashlytics, analytics, and feature flags
• Experience with React Native New Architecture, Fabric, or TurboModules
• Experience integrating AI, LLM, voice, recommendation, or generative features into mobile applications
• Experience leading technical initiatives or supporting mobile-platform modernization

You’ll be successful in this role if you can independently take ownership of complex mobile initiatives, make sound architecture decisions, and consistently deliver reliable production experiences across iOS and Android.

You’ll bring depth in React Native and mobile engineering while being equally comfortable troubleshooting production issues, improving performance, collaborating across functions, reviewing code, and helping other engineers grow.

Most importantly, you’ll help build mobile experiences that are scalable, reliable, and ready to support sophisticated communication and calling capabilities.

Nextiva helps businesses create exceptional customer experiences and build deeper, more meaningful relationships for growth. Our unified, trusted, and modern platform leverages AI and automation to drive exceptional outcomes for customers and improve the bottom line.

Nextiva brings customer and team interactions together in one AI-powered platform, including business communications across voice, video, messaging, desktop, browser, and mobile experiences. Our technology is built to be scalable, reliable, and adaptable as customer and business needs evolve.

Our Total Rewards offerings are designed to allow our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can be their best, in and out of the office.

Our compensation packages are tailored to each role and candidate's qualifications. We consider a wide range of factors, including skills, experience, training, and certifications, when determining compensation. We aim to offer competitive salaries or wages that reflect the value you bring to our team. Depending on the position, compensation may include base salary and/or hourly wages, incentives, or bonuses.

• Medical 🩺 - Medical insurance coverage is available for employees, their spouse, and up to two dependent children with a limit of 500,000 INR, as well as their parents or in-laws for up to 300,000 INR. This comprehensive coverage ensures that essential healthcare needs are met for the entire family unit, providing peace of mind and security in times of medical necessity.
• Group Term & Group Personal Accident Insurance 💼 - Provides insurance coverage against the risk of death / injury during the policy period sustained due to an accident caused by violent, visible & external means.
  • Coverage Type - Employee Only
  • Sum Insured - 3 times of annual CTC with minimum cap of INR 10,00,000
  • Free Cover Limit - 1.5 Crore
• Work-Life Balance ⚖️ - 15 days of Privilege leaves per calendar year, 6 days of Paid Sick leave per calendar year, 6 days of Casual leave per calendar year. Paid 26 weeks of Maternity leaves, 1 week of Paternity leave, a day off on your Birthday, and paid holidays
• Financial Security💰 - Provident Fund & Gratuity
• Wellness 🤸‍ - Employee Assistance Program and comprehensive wellness initiatives
• Growth 🌱 - Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities and career advancement

At Nextiva, we're committed to supporting our employees' health, well-being, and professional growth. Join us and build a rewarding career! 

Beware of Recruitment Fraud: At Nextiva, we follow a merit-based hiring process and do not charge any fees or require a deposit at any stage.  We also do not authorize any third parties to collect payments or sensitive information on our behalf. 

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