Mobile App Engineer (React Native)
Job Summary
Start Date: Mai 1 2026
acemate is building an AI learning & teaching platform for higher and further education institutions. We have strong traction secured funding and are entering an exciting growth phase. Were looking for a passionate Mobile App Developer (React Native) to drive our product forward and help us scale.
About acemate
Founded in 2024 acemate has quickly become the leading AI learning platform for higher and further education trusted by top-tier institutions across four countries including University of Cologne WHU and the German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (IHKs).
- Our Mission: Democratizing access to personalized learning. We dont believe that AI will replace educators. Instead we empower them to design and deliver personalized learning experiences at scale.
- Our Growth: Weve raised pre-seed funding and are growing rapidly. While we focus on higher and further education in the DACH area today were already expanding into new regions and markets.
- Our Culture: Were a young driven team passionate about tackling the toughest challenges in education. We embrace builder culture and minimize scheduled meetings for ad-hoc discussions and maximized focus on coding and creating.
Tasks
What Youll Do
Operating as a Mobile Software Developer and foundational team member you will act as a primary product owner wielding substantial impact over our user experience and mobile architecture. You will assume complete end-to-end responsibility for the underlying systems driving our mobile capabilities ranging from state management and UI architecture to performance monitoring and API integration.
- Develop the core product beyond just the UI: You will assume absolute accountability for every feature you create. This involves crafting seamless user flows handling complex local state and guaranteeing a highly responsive native-feeling performance. You construct it deploy it and iterate upon it.
- Engineer for intelligence and scalability: You will blueprint highly scalable mobile architectures (utilizing contemporary paradigms such as MVVM or TCA) that connect seamlessly with our Effect-based backend and AI systems. You will navigate the intricacies associated with real-time synchronization offline-first logic and streaming AI responses.
- Champion technical excellence: You will actively seek out and resolve performance bottleneckssuch as render cycles and app startup timewhile simultaneously elevating standards for maintainability type safety and UX consistency throughout the complete codebase.
Requirements
What Were Looking For
- Strong experience with TypeScript & React Native.
- End-to-End Ownership: You dont throw things over the wall. You own your features until they are running successfully in production and used by real learners.
- Startup experience: Youre comfortable in fast-paced evolving environments
- Balanced AI approach: You knew how to code before Cursor and Claude Code but understand how to leverage them effectively
- Product passion: High identification with our mission to transform education
Benefits
Benefits
- Competitive salary package with equity component
- Fully covered Deutschlandticket
- BusinessBike (bike or e-bike via leasing also for private use )
- Working in a small but driven team built around performance and learning
- Flexible environment with high degree of autonomy
- Frequent team events and acemate parties!
Key Skills
About Company
At acemate, we’re redefining how knowledge is learned and taught. Our AI education platform transforms any content into personalized and adaptive learning experiences – from exercises and mind maps to personalized tutoring. We serve students, universities and private education provide ... View more