SDE 1 - React Native

We are looking for a skilled React Native Engineer to build and scale real-time, AI-powered mobile experiences. The role involves developing high-performance mobile applications with strong expertise in WebSockets, offline-first architecture, local databases, and scalable real-time communication systems. The ideal candidate will work closely with product, backend, and AI teams to create seamless user experiences, optimize app performance, and build extensible mobile infrastructure for AI-native features. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge agentic AI products impacting millions of users in the fintech ecosystem.
Responsibilities:
Implement the chat interface for our following established architecture patterns and design specs from our UI/UX team.
Design the real-time communication layer, a transport-agnostic message pipeline that works across WebSocket, HTTP polling, and future push notification channels without UI-layer changes.
Architect the local data layer's offline-first storage, sync strategies, conflict resolution, and schema migration patterns that scale as Dhruva adds new capabilities.
Build extensible rendering infrastructure for AI-native features, streaming responses, polymorphic message types, inline actionable widgets (payment CTAs, score visualizations), and proactive nudge surfaces.
Handle mobile-specific edge cases: app backgrounding/foregrounding, token refresh, graceful degradation on network loss, and error recovery UX.
Write well-tested, documented code that the team can maintain and extend as Dhruva's capabilities grow.
Requirements:
1+ years of React Native with production apps shipped to both app stores.
Strong WebSocket integration experience with connection lifecycle, reconnection strategies, and event-driven message handling on mobile.
Local data persistence using SQLite or WatermelonDB, including schema migrations and offline-first patterns.
TypeScript proficiency defining strict types from backend API contracts and maintaining type safety across the data layer.
Performance optimization on Android FlatList tuning, memory profiling, and Hermes engine familiarity.
State management with Redux or equivalent handling concurrent async state (network, WebSocket, and local DB) without race conditions.
Experience rendering polymorphic UI components mapping different message types (text, rich cards, suggestions, documents) to distinct components from a single data stream.

Experience
1-4 yrs