Reports to: Director of Engineering
Location: Austin, TX
About the Role
inKind is seeking a Senior React Native Engineer to join one of our cross-functional product pods focused on building intelligent, AI-powered consumer and restaurant experiences.
This is not a traditional mobile engineering role. We are looking for a highly adaptable product engineer who thrives in a fast-moving environment, leverages AI tooling daily, and enjoys owning meaningful product outcomes from concept to production.
You will operate inside a small, autonomous pod structure alongside product managers, designers, backend engineers, data/AI engineers, and QA partners. Each pod is responsible for rapidly shipping and iterating on customer-facing features, internal operational tools, and AI-enabled experiences that power the future of the restaurant ecosystem.
You’ll play a key role in scaling our React Native platform while helping integrate modern AI workflows, LLM-powered product experiences, and AI-assisted engineering practices across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality React Native applications for iOS and Android
- Build performant, scalable, and maintainable mobile experiences
- Collaborate closely with your pod to rapidly prototype and ship new features
- Partner with product and design teams to translate business goals into elegant technical solutions
- Build mobile interfaces and workflows that integrate AI-powered capabilities and LLM-driven experiences
- Collaborate with backend and AI engineering teams to support recommendation systems, conversational experiences, personalization, and intelligent automation
- Integrate with modern AI infrastructure and APIs where appropriate
- Help define best practices for AI-native mobile product experiences
- Leverage AI coding agents and modern developer tooling to accelerate engineering velocity
- Evaluate and improve workflows using AI-assisted development practices
- Maintain strong engineering judgment while validating AI-generated code and architectural suggestions
- Contribute to engineering efficiency through automation and tooling improvements
- Optimize rendering, state management, app startup time, memory usage, and overall mobile performance
- Work across React Native and native platform integrations when necessary
- Improve application observability, reliability, and scalability
- Help shape frontend architecture and technical direction across pods
- Write clean, testable, well-documented Typescript code
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering planning
- Build and maintain automated tests and CI/CD workflows
- Share knowledge and mentor other engineers across the organization
- Contribute to a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, speed, and continuous improvement
- 5+ years of professional experience building React Native applications
- Strong expertise with Typescript and modern React architecture
- Experience working in fast-paced startup or product-led engineering environments
- Strong understanding of mobile application performance optimization
- Experience integrating REST APIs and third-party services
- Strong understanding of complex state management patterns (Redux, Zustand, React Query, Context, etc.)
- Experience working with agents, LLM tooling, or AI-assisted development workflows
- Ability to move quickly through large codebases and ambiguous technical challenges
- Strong debugging and systems-thinking capabilities
- Product-minded engineering approach with strong ownership mentality
- Experience building AI-powered product features or integrating LLM APIs
- Familiarity with vector search, recommendation systems, RAG architectures, or conversational interfaces
- Experience with React.js web applications
- Experience with native mobile development (Swift, Kotlin, Java, Objective-C, C++)
- Experience designing scalable frontend/mobile architecture
At inKind, we believe supporting our employees goes beyond compensation. We’re committed to creating an environment where our team can thrive both professionally and personally.
Health & Wellness- 100% employer-paid medical coverage through Blue Cross Blue Shield for employees on our base healthcare plan
- 100% employer-paid Dental PPO coverage for employees
- Vision coverage available
- Company-paid Short-Term Disability coverage
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 9 paid company holidays annually
- Generous parental leave and child care benefits
- Career development and training opportunities designed to support long-term professional growth
- Daily catered lunches and office snacks
- Credits to dine within the inKind restaurant network
- Collaborative, in-person culture based in Austin, Texas
- Dog-friendly office environment with views of downtown Austin
Salary:
$145,000 - $160,000, DOE
Who we are:
inKind connects passionate diners with exceptional restaurants across the country. inKind partners with thousands of restaurants and has millions of users who want to discover great places, dine confidently, and earn meaningful rewards.
Through the inKind app, guests earn 20% back every time they dine, turning everyday meals into something more rewarding. From celebrated restaurant groups like José Andres and Michael Mina to beloved neighborhood favorites, inKind helps diners explore the best restaurants in town while supporting the restaurants and chefs who shape how their cities eat.
Rooted in hospitality and built on a win-win philosophy, inKind exists to help great restaurants thrive while inspiring guests to dine out more often. Every meal creates value on both sides of the table, empowering diners to savor more while strengthening the restaurant community.
inKind is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that diversity is vital to inKind's ability to provide our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability status, veteran status, or any other protected category have no bearing on our hiring decisions.
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