The Role
Lead the technical direction for a React Native multi-platform application, collaborating with Product and Design to enhance user experience and define architectural standards.
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ABOUT US
At Vida, we help people get better- and we're helping the healthcare system get better, too.
Vida is a virtual, personalized obesity care provider that uses evidence-based treatment to help patients manage obesity and related conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety and depression. Vida's team of Obesity Medicine-Certified Physicians, Registered Dietitians, Expert Coaches and Licensed Therapists takes a whole-person approach to care, helping people lose weight, reduce stress and improve their overall health.
By combining advanced technology with top-notch healthcare providers, Vida is breaking down the barriers that have historically kept people from getting the best care. It's trusted by Fortune 100 companies, major national payers and large providers to enable their employees to live their healthiest lives.
**Vida is authorized to do business in many, but not all, states. If you are not located in or able to work from a state where Vida is registered, you will not be eligible for employment. Please speak with your recruiter to learn more about where Vida is registered.
Please note: all Vida Employees must be able to work from the U.S.- international work is prohibited.
Vida is looking for a Staff React Native Engineer to lead the technical direction of our next-generation member experience across mobile and web. You will spearhead the re-imagination of our current native mobile app and React web portal into a unified React Native platform that powers iOS, Android and Web. You will be the technical north star for Vida 2.0, redefining how members experience obesity and chronic care across platforms.
You will partner directly with Product, Design and clinical leaders to turn a highly configurable, AI-driven care model into a simple, elegant member journey. This is a rebuild from the ground up: you will influence architecture, tooling, hiring and how customer-facing experiences ship for years to come. This is a high-impact, independent IC role. You will architect the foundations of a scalable, premium, component-driven application with best-in-class UX, accessibility, developer experience and operational excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture and technical direction for a new cross-platform React Native codebase (iOS, Android, Web).
- Define patterns for state management, navigation and data fetching (e.g., React Query/TanStack, Zustand/Redux, React Navigation) and drive consistent adoption.
- Collaborate on a design-system approach (theming, component library, tokens) enabling fast, consistent assembly of new member experiences.
- Design and evolve a modular, configuration-driven architecture that supports multiple client configurations (benefits, rules, branding) on one codebase.
- Work closely with UX to translate design vision into performant, accessible, premium-quality UI.
- Define patterns for analytics, logging, instrumentation and feature flags to support safe experimentation and deep behavioral insights.
- Create patterns for A/B tests and gradual rollouts across mobile and web.
- Partner with SRE/Backend to ensure strong observability (error tracking, crash analytics, performance monitoring) and clear member experience SLAs.
- Establish best-in-class developer experience and CI/CD, enabling safe, fast, multi-platform releases.
- Define and champion engineering standards: code quality, testing, documentation, practice review.
- Partner with QA to enable automation hooks and build testable, predictable interfaces.
- Mentor and level up the entire frontend org, including RN best practices, system design and maintainable component paradigms.
- Play a key role in hiring: define the senior/frontend bar, interview candidates and help onboard new team members.
- Model a design-partner mindset, using real-time prototyping and collaborative iteration with cross-functional peers.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree at a minimum.
- 7+ years of direct relevant experience.
- Deep expertise in React Native, with a history of building large-scale, multi-platform applications.
- Experience architecting large React/React Native codebases (monorepo, shared packages, design system libraries) with clear boundaries and layering.
- Proven ability to lead complex re-platforming or greenfield rebuilds.
- Strong knowledge of performance profiling and platform internals (Hermes, Fabric, animations, native modules, bundle optimization).
- Ability to design maintainable component systems and UI foundations that scale for years.
- Experience partnering closely with Product Design on complex component workflows and UX systems.
- Familiarity with UI component libraries (MUI, Tailwind, Chakra, etc.) and responsive design.
- Familiarity with modern tooling: TypeScript, ESLint/Prettier, Jest/RTL/Detox, Storybook, metro optimizations.
- Strong technical communication, cross-team influencing ability and independent IC leadership.
Preferred:
- Native iOS (Swift) or Android (Kotlin/Java) experience.
- Experience with React Native Web or similar single-codebase approaches.
- Experience with experimentation at scale (feature flags, remote config, A/B testing).
- Experience in regulated domains (healthcare, insurance, fintech) where reliability, stability and auditability matter.
- Ability to collaborate with clinicians and non-technical stakeholders to translate complex rules into simple, safe user experiences.
- Comfortable working in or establishing a monorepo (Nx, Turborepo).
Vida is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
Diversity is more than a commitment at Vida—it is the foundation of what we do. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
We seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We don’t just accept differences — we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our platform and those we serve. Vida is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at Vida in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position will be deemed the sole property of Vida. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Vida as a result of the unsolicited referral.
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Top Skills
Detox
Eslint
Fabric
Hermes
Jest
Prettier
React
React Native
Rtl
Storybook
Typescript
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The Company
What We Do
Vida is a virtual care company that combines a human-centric approach with technology to address chronic and co-occurring physical and behavioral health conditions. We provide personalized chronic condition management combined with health coaching and therapy through a mobile and online platform that supports individuals in managing and significantly improving conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, depression, anxiety, etc. Our platform integrates deeply individual expert care with machine learning and remote monitoring to deliver lasting behavior change, health outcomes and cost savings. Vida is in the business of enabling self-insured employers, health plans and providers to take better care of their employees and members. We are trusted by Fortune 1000 companies, major national payers, and large providers to activate, engage, and empower their employees to live their healthiest lives. Based in San Francisco, CA, Vida is backed by investors including Khosla Ventures, StartX, Aspect Ventures, Canvas, Workday, and Nokia.
