Senior React Native SDK Engineer

Stream is looking for a Senior React Native SDK Engineer to join one of our SDK teams.

This is a full-time job, either in our Amsterdam office (hybrid) or remote if currently based in an EU country. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are possible.

What will you work on

You’ll join our React Native efforts around our Video, Chat, and Feeds SDKs. This will be an opportunity to learn from experienced and talented engineers and work on a product that impacts more than 1 billion end-users.

You will have the opportunity to also collaborate with the other SDK teams (native mobile, Flutter, React), the backend API, Design, and Devrel teams.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance existing React Native SDKs

• Integrating new features from our roadmap (Chat, Video, Feeds)

• Work across multiple teams to provide technical insight on product and feature development

• Be present in collaborations with backend teams to ensure feature parity across SDKs

• Assist with implementation, GitHub issues, and open-source contributions

• Supporting existing clients and prospects through various channels

• Improving SDK documentation, tutorials, and other technical documentation

• Take care of our low-level JavaScript SDKs that allow our customers to integrate with their framework of choice

What makes this job exciting?

• Impact: You’ll get to work on products that are going to impact the lives of thousands of engineers and billions of end users

• Visibility: Everything you’ll do is public and available on GitHub

• Challenge: You’ll deal with complex technical challenges, optimize for performance and ease of use, quickly learn new technologies, and solve technical problems so others don’t have to

• Technology: You’ll acquire new skills in specific technologies like React Native, WebRTC, Protobuf, Twirp, RxJS, Offline capabilities

• Team: You’ll join a seasoned team, proficient in many technologies, establishing solid foundations for all of our JavaScript products

About You

As a team member, you must be excited to grow with Stream. At our core, we are a startup - you should be able to act quickly, thrive in uncertainty, and love pivoting to new technologies.

You have:

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working with React Native

• Proficiency in English (able to conduct technical and non-technical conversations)

• Experience with one of the following: React Native, React/Angular, Android/ iOS, Flutter and (or similar)

• Professional experience with TypeScript, Node, Expo

• Computer Science fundamentals

• Experience with REST API integrations

• Experience with Testing and CI/CD

• A keen eye for UX detail

Bonus points

• Previous experience building software libraries for other developers

• Experience with OpenAPI / gRPC / protobuf

• Good understanding of reactive systems such as RxJS or other state management libraries

• WebRTC experience

• Build applications on top of databases (eg. SQLite for mobile, ORMs, …)

• Experience working in SaaS startups

• Experience producing technical documentation

Don’t fall into all of the job requirements? You don’t have to match every bullet as long as you can show us that you can pick things up quickly and master the technical domain you work on.

Our tech stack

At Stream, we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimized and available features to our customers. Here is a shortlist of the technology that we currently use in the React Chat and Video SDKs:

• Modern React, TypeScript, RxJS, WebRTC, RxJS, Protobuf, Twirp, OpenAPI

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