Senior React Native Engineer - Airgoods

This is a on-site role in New York City

Airgoods is building the future of food and beverage distribution.

Today, we help emerging brands (think Fishwife, Ghia and David Protein) rapidly grow their wholesale business and earn placement into the nation’s best specialty food stores.

We started in January 2023 and have since raised $7M from top investors like Y Combinator and Initialized Capital. We are a fully in-person company, with an office near Madison Square Park in New York City.

Paolo (co-founder and CTO): Paolo studied Computer Science and Economics at Yale. Previously worked as a software engineer at his brother’s startup Momence (YC S20). Grew up in Brazil before coming to the US for college. Played soccer at Yale and loves sports.

Elian (co-founder and COO): Elian studied Economics at Yale, played on the soccer team alongside Paolo, and captained the team for two years. He also worked with Aaron at an emerging VC fund for 1.5 years of his time at Yale. Grew up in Asia and Europe before moving to Milwaukee before college.

Aaron (co-founder and CEO): Aaron studied Economics at Yale, where he met Elian and Paolo. After Yale, he worked at an emerging VC fund in New York with Elian; that fund would later write the first check into Airgoods. He grew up helping his dad run the wholesale side of a brick & mortar retail store in Portland, Maine.

You’ll also be working alongside our three fantastic engineers, Emilio, Steven, and Sergio, and Andrés, Pradnaya, and Tomas who are part of the Growth & Ops team!

Airgoods is seeking a mobile engineer. We are on a high-growth trajectory, and we're looking for someone who wants to join us on the journey to building a billion-dollar company.

This position will involve:

• Building the cross-platform mobile app at Airgoods from scratch.

• You will be the primary, directly responsible individual for Airgoods’ iOS+Android app. You'll set the bar for quality and be responsible for everything mobile app related.

• Engineer and maintain our frontend infrastructure for the React Native mobile app — everything from design systems to data management to performance.

We are a young company of highly driven and passionate individuals building a billion-dollar business. To thrive in this environment, you’ll have the following characteristics:

• You are driven with a strong work ethic - our team is committed to going the extra mile, even if it means working long nights and weekends to achieve our goals.

• You prioritize speed and have a bias for action.

• You strive for excellence in every aspect of your work - you take ownership of your outcomes and overdeliver on your goals.

• You’re humble and eager to learn whatever it takes to help our team and our customers succeed.

• You play for the front of the jersey.

Must-haves

• Experience developing and maintaining React Native mobile applications

• Has maintained and shipped products to the iOS / Android app store(s) before.

• Has a great sense of design and UX — can think through product flows that make sense while making sure the UI looks and feels amazing

• Can ship high-quality and performant code that scales as the frontend grows and more complexity is added.

• Understanding of mobile app architecture and design patterns

• Interest in generative design and AI‑assisted creative workflows. (i.e. a0, Figma Make, v0)

Bonus points

• Knowledge or experience with Expo

• Experience with monorepos powered by Turborepo

• Experience with mobile CI/CD pipelines and deployment

• Understanding of mobile app testing best practices

• Experience with Android & Apple app store review processes