Senior / Tech Lead Mobile App Developer (Injective Labs)

About Injective Labs

Injective Labs is trailblazing a new dawn for Web3 enabled finance. We are the core contributors to Injective, one of the fastest growing blockchains in the industry.

Injective provides an interoperable smart contracts platform that is optimized for building decentralized finance applications. Interoperability is at the core of Injective, which is natively integrated with chains such as Ethereum, Cosmos and Solana. Developers can rapidly launch premier financial applications suited for mass adoption using Injective’s infrastructure and specialized DeFi primitives such as the world’s first fully on-chain order book.

Our team has decades of experience spearheading the largest financial institutions and tech organizations. Injective is incubated by Binance and is backed by leading firms such as Jump Crypto, Pantera and Mark Cuban.

About the role

As a Senior / Tech Lead Mobile App Developer, you will take technical ownership of our mobile application and help build the next generation of DeFi trading experiences.

You’ll be a hands-on technical leader, working primarily on our React Native application while owning key architectural decisions, engineering standards, performance, reliability, and the overall technical direction of the mobile product. You’ll work closely with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, and other engineers to turn complex trading functionality into fast, reliable, and intuitive mobile experiences.

We’re looking for an experienced mobile engineer who can operate with a high degree of autonomy, make sound technical decisions, and raise the engineering bar across the team. You should be comfortable moving between architecture and hands-on implementation, reviewing and improving others’ work, troubleshooting complex production issues, and driving projects from technical design through release. Most importantly, this role is for someone passionate about building exceptional mobile products and excited about the future of decentralized finance.

Responsibilities:

• Take technical ownership of our React Native mobile application, driving its architecture, scalability, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability across iOS and Android.
• Lead the full engineering lifecycle of mobile features, from technical design and hands-on implementation through testing, release, monitoring, and iteration.
• Build complex and high-impact functionality using React Native and TypeScript while defining and maintaining engineering standards, patterns, and best practices the codebase and team.
• Make key technical and architectural decisions, balancing product requirements, development speed, scalability, and technical debt, while proactively identifying and driving improvements to the mobile architecture and development processes.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions, including API design, integrations, real-time data flows, and supporting infrastructure.
• Own mobile release processes and application health, including App Store and Google Play releases, monitoring, issue triage, and investigation of complex bugs and production incidents to ensure reliable long-term fixes.
• Stay up to date with modern mobile development practices and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools when relevant.

Who you are:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience building production mobile applications.
• Experience building fintech, or trading applications.
• Experience with blockchain, Web3, or DeFi.
• Strong professional experience with React Native, React, and TypeScript.
• Experience owning or leading the technical development of a production mobile application.
• Strong understanding of mobile application architecture, design patterns, state management, performance, testing, and maintainability.
• Experience making architectural decisions and driving technical projects from design through production.
• Strong experience integrating mobile applications with backend APIs and services.
• Experience with Node.js.
• Strong experience working with REST APIs.
• Experience with real-time data and communication technologies such as gRPC, Server-Sent Events (SSE), or WebSockets is a strong …