Senior React Native Developer

About Headway

Founded in 2015,Headwaywas born out of a passion to bring entrepreneurial ideas to market and keep them there. We work holistically with our client partners as a true extension of their product team, not just as an execution arm of their business. If we see something broken, whether that's a workflow, a marketing or messaging strategy, or a needless feature, we speak up, and our clients trust us to help them fix it.

Because we're more than just designers, developers, and product strategists, we achieve results that bring successful long-term partnerships and trusted referrals. We help entrepreneurs and corporate innovatorsbuild a business― not just an app. Our approach to validating ideas and building sustainable business models has been a catalyst for our growth. This approach, coupled with realistic and incremental software releases, results in a friendly, fun, and collaborative atmosphere where our colleagues and clients both have room to learn and grow.

View ourcase studiesand see how our clients talk aboutour approach.

We're actively engaged with our community through variouslive streams and videosto help startups and product teams reach their goals. We're excited about what we've achieved in the last 10 years, but we're just getting started. We need your help to take us to the next level!

Position Description

As a Senior Developer at Headway, you are client and user-focused while executing on the details of each project. You diligently develop features and functionality, guided by Headway's process to ensure each release is successful. This role requires constant learning and a growth mindset.

This is a remote role embedded with an existing enterprise client as part of an integrated Headway + client delivery team. This engagement is expected to be medium to long-term, with the potential to stay on this client for a year or more.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Developer at Headway, you are responsible for communicating with clients during sprint planning, retros, and release demos, you help monitor features as project requirements change, and direct emergent requirement discussions back to the core focus of the product. In doing so, you help manage client expectations and project scope, ensuring we build the most valuable features first.

In addition, you:
* Set and communicate technical direction for the mobile codebase (patterns, standards, and tradeoffs).
* Own architecture and technical planning for features end-to-end (mobile + API integration), documenting decisions as needed.
* Proactively manage technical debt through refactoring proposals and incremental improvements.
* Mentor via pair programming, raising quality and consistency across the team.
* Work effectively within enterprise constraints (security/compliance, access controls, release gates, device/testing requirements).
* Collaborate with client stakeholders across product, QA, backend, and platform teams to drive alignment and delivery.
* Make pragmatic technical decisions optimized for long-term maintainability, reliability, and incremental delivery.
* Practicing "craft within context" and working with teammates to receive advice and guidance to grow your knowledge.
* Assisting with development critiques through QA and pull request (PR) reviews.
Help us make a difference, make waves, and make Headway!

Expectations
* You live by ourGuiding Manifestoand embody the core values of Headway.
* You are open to criticism from your team and are always eager to learn and to share knowledge.
* You have the ability to think big while being detail-oriented and delivery-focused.
* You are self-motivated and able to deal with pressure and work well in a fast-paced environment.
* You have an outgoing, personable, and sociable attitude.
* You have the initiative to solve challenges, meet goals, and set new directions based on data.
* You are capable of inspiring colleagues and clients.
* You have a passion to create useful and valuable solutions.
* You prioritize and attend our team weeks in Wisconsin, or at an awesome TBD destination.

What Does Success Look Like?

In the first 30 days:
* Ramp into the codebase, tooling, environments, and release process.
* Build relationships across the embedded Headway team and client stakeholders.
* Ship several small improvements in the mobile codebase.
By 60-90 days:
* Independently own a meaningful feature area and drive delivery with clear tradeoffs.
* Improve quality and reliability through tests, code review standards, and pragmatic refactors.
* Strengthen the feedback loop between product intent, implementation, QA, and release readiness.

Requirements
* 3+ years of paid, professional mobile development experience, including 1-2+ years with React Native.
* Experience with or willingness to learn native iOS and Android.
* Experience submitting and deploying apps to the App Store and Play Store.
* Experience with full-stack technologies like Ruby on Rails, Phoenix/Elixir, or Node,