inKind is a restaurant commerce enablement platform that provides restaurants capital in exchange for food and beverage credits sold to diners through its app.
<h1><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Senior React Native Engineer, AI Products & Mobile Platform</strong></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Reports to:</strong> Director of Engineering</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Location:</strong> Austin, TX OR Remote. </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Mobile Product Development</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Design, develop, and maintain high-quality React Native applications for iOS and Android</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Build performant, scalable, and maintainable mobile experiences</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Collaborate closely with your pod to rapidly prototype and ship new features</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Partner with product and design teams to translate business goals into elegant technical solutions</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>AI-Enabled Product Experiences</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Build mobile interfaces and workflows that integrate AI-powered capabilities and LLM-driven experiences</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Collaborate with backend and AI engineering teams to support recommendation systems, conversational experiences, personalization, and intelligent automation</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Integrate with modern AI infrastructure and APIs where appropriate</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Help define best practices for AI-native mobile product experiences</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>AI-Assisted Engineering Practices</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Leverage AI coding agents and modern developer tooling to accelerate engineering velocity</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Evaluate and improve workflows using AI-assisted development practices</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Maintain strong engineering judgment while validating AI-generated code and architectural suggestions</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Contribute to engineering efficiency through automation and tooling improvements</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Architecture & Performance</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Optimize rendering, state management, app startup time, memory usage, and overall mobile performance</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Work across React Native and native platform integrations when necessary</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Improve application observability, reliability, and scalability</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Help shape frontend architecture and technical direction across pods</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Quality & Collaboration</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Write clean, testable, well-documented Typescript code</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering planning</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Build and maintain automated tests and CI/CD workflows</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Share knowledge and mentor other engineers across the organization</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Contribute to a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, speed, and continuous improvement</span></li> </ul> <h1><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></span></h1> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">5+ years of professional experience building React Native applications</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong expertise with Typescript and modern React architecture</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience working in fast-paced startup or product-led engineering environments</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong understand