React Native Engineer

About VacationRenter VacationRenter is the fastest growing vacation rental search engine. We love traveling, but not how time-consuming and complex it can be to find the right place to stay. So we reimagined a better way. We eliminated the need to search across several sites and scroll through pages of irrelevant results just to find the perfect home away from home. We aggregate accommodations from the top travel sites, giving travelers all the best options in one place. VacationRenter was born inside the startup studio Wilbur Labs. VacationRenter uses automation and AI to help travelers find the perfect stay. Be sure to check out our rebranded site, Vogo.com. Vogo is the same company travelers have come to love but under a new name. 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