You'll own the mobile experience for Gatehood's neighbourhood Apps. This isn't maintenance work—you're architecting how millions of Indians discover and transact with local services. You'll make core decisions about our React Native stack, ship features end-to-end, and set the quality bar for everything that runs on iOS and Android. WHAT YOU WILL BUILD
Design and implement the core mobile app architecture that scales across millions of users and transactions
Ship consumer-facing features from conception to production on both iOS and Android simultaneously
Establish coding standards, testing practices, and deployment workflows that define how we build mobile at Gatehood
Debug, optimize, and ship performant features—no technical debt excuses, no slow apps
Collaborate directly with product and design to translate marketplace needs into mobile reality
Own the mobile SDKs and integrations that connect our backend to the end user WHO YOU ARE
3–5 years of production React Native experience shipping real apps to both iOS and Android app stores
Deep knowledge of your tech stack: JavaScript/TypeScript, native modules, state management, and platform-specific quirks
You've debugged memory leaks, app crashes, and performance issues—and know how to prevent them
You write clean, testable code and actually care about maintainability, not just shipping quick
Direct experience building marketplace or transactional apps—you understand real-world complexity
You're comfortable making architectural decisions with incomplete information and defending them with reasoning NICE TO HAVE
You've worked on a product with 100k+ active users and optimized for scale
Experience with mobile payment integrations or fintech-adjacent features
You've contributed to or maintained open-source mobile libraries and Firebase/supabase along with Node WHAT WE OFFER
Founding engineer equity—you're building something from the ground up, not joining a mature org
Direct access to our founder and product team—no layers, real influence on direction The chance to shape how Indians discover and transact locally—meaningful impact on a real market problem
Work with a lean, technical team where your code matters and gets used by thousands daily
Salary TBD with the flexibility of a founder-led company