The Role
As a React Native Engineer, you'll build and evolve the mobile app, collaborate with teams to enhance user experience, and define mobile engineering practices.
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About VacationRenter
VacationRenter is a global travel platform that brings all types of accommodations into one place, making it easy for travelers to find the perfect stay.
From private homes and beachfront villas to city apartments and hotels, VacationRenter offers one of the most extensive selections of properties worldwide and simplifies the entire search experience. Behind the scenes, VacationRenter’s technology analyzes millions of listings and billions of data points to surface the best options for every trip.
Launched out of Wilbur Labs in 2018, VacationRenter quickly became one of the fastest growing travel startups ever, surpassing $1 billion in gross bookings in just two years. The company is led by a team of seasoned travel industry leaders.
About This Role
VacationRenter is seeking a versatile, highly skilled React Native Engineer to join our engineering organization. In this role, you’ll help craft elegant user experiences, ensure high performance across both iOS and Android platforms, and contribute to the architectural decisions that shape our mobile ecosystem. Our mobile experience is central to how travelers discover and book their perfect stay, and this role is crucial to delivering a fast, intuitive, and delightful app used by millions of travelers worldwide.
The ideal candidate will take ownership of core parts of the app, play a key role in defining mobile engineering best practices, and collaborate closely with design, product, and engineering teams to build and evolve our mobile application.
This role will report directly to the Head of Engineering. This is a full-time hybrid position, based in Dallas.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Kickstart our mobile app from scratch, setting up the foundation for a fast, reliable, and beautiful React Native experience
- Design, build, and ship high-quality features that make trading simple and intuitive on mobile
- Collaborate closely with design, backend, and product teams to turn ideas into polished, production-ready experiences
- Help define our mobile architecture, tooling, and best practices as we grow the app and the team
- Take ownership of your work (from prototype to production) with a focus on performance, usability, and scalability
- Write clean, testable code and contribute to a culture of technical excellence
- Work hand-in-hand with other engineers to move fast, learn fast, and iterate quickly
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on mobile applications
- Experience with React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, or roughly equivalent technologies
- Extensive experience with React Native, having led or significantly contributed to mobile app projects built from scratch
- Deep knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript and related tooling
- Ability to communicate clearly and write clear documentation
- Hands-on experience with web technologies such as React, HTML, and CSS, especially helpful for aligning mobile and web experiences
Preferred Qualifications & Prior Experience:
- Familiarity with additional mobile frameworks or libraries
- Contributions to open-source projects in React Native
- Prior experience at a startup or travel company
Benefits & Perks:
- Competitive salary + equity
- Top-tier laptop provided100% company-paid health benefits for base plan coverage, with the option to upgrade to higher-tier plans
- 401(k) with company matchUnlimited, guilt-free vacation days
- Annual wellness stipend (gym + other wellness activities)
- Monthly house cleaning stipendAnnual travel allowance
- Monthly cell phone & internet usage stipend
- Charity donation company match
- Employee referral bonus
- Team offsites/activities
Top Skills
CSS
HTML
JavaScript
Node.js
Postgres
React
React Native
Typescript
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The Company
What We Do
The studio identifies big customer pain points and builds businesses to solve these problems. After an idea is validated in the lab, the studio brings in industry leaders with domain expertise to manage the company. Wilbur Labs continues to provide funding, shared resources, and operational support to ensure management is focused on solving problems that matter. Wilbur Labs was founded in 2016 by Phil Santoro and David Kolodny.
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