Software Engineer, Mobile Development

State Affairs is the nations leading news and policy intelligence platform focused on state governments. We combine nonpartisan coverage of Statehouses across the country alongside state government data and AI-native tools into a singular platform.

We inform and empower decision makers policy professionals and citizens through our award-winning journalism and data delivering profound insights to help our customers decode and act on state politics and policy. Were building a category-defining business that will reshape America as we strengthen visibility into whats happening and why at the state level.

We are hiring a Software Engineer Mobile Development to join our team located in San Francisco California or Washington DC.

You will own our ReactNative codebase endtoend. One sprint youll deliver offlinefirst reading with encrypted SQLite sync; the next youll add pushnotification workflows so users can watch a bill in real time from committee to the governors deskall while reusing shared TypeScript logic from our NextJS web app.

As the Software Engineer Mobile Development you will:

• Ship feature parity with web via universal search saved feeds and collaborative annotation which are rendered at 60fps on iOS and Android.
• Architect for scale and maintainability by using typed GraphQL/REST clients modular feature folders and Expo EAS CI/CD hooking into GitHub Actions.
• Leverage AI as a forcemultiplier by using Cursor/Copilot/ClaudeCode to scaffold native modules write E2E Detox tests and generate i18n copy variants.
• Integrate with backend services (Node APIs Postgres Mongo) via secure OAuth flows and ondevice crypto keychains.
• Measure and iterate by implementing performance tracing crash analytics featureflag rollouts and inapp feedback funnels.
• Collaborate crossplatform to keep shared designsystem tokens and business logic in sync with web/fullstack teammates

Essential Qualifications for this position include:

• Bachelors degree in computer science engineering or related field
• 5 years of professional work experience as a software engineer mobile development
• Professional work experience building ReactNative applications in production
• Ability to utilize LLM tools (Claude-Code Cursor Codex) to accelerate development testing documentation and refactors.
• Knowledge of mobile architecture patternsMVVM Clean Architecture or equivalent.
• Knowledge of state management libraries such as Redux or MobX.

Preferred Qualifications for this position include:

• Ability to develop with native iOS/Android development
• Knowledge of Expo bare workflow CodePush/OTA strategies and deeplinking schemes.
• Knowledge with vectorsearchpowered semantic features or smallformfactor dataviz.
• Professional work experience with offlinesync tech (CRDTs WatermelonDB SQLite) or push infrastructure (FCM/APNs).
• Professional work experience with native modules or bridging (Swift/Kotlin ObjectiveC/Java).
• Prior professional work experience in a start-up organization

This is an onsite work opportunity and our teams operate from the Washington DC office (located at L and 15th St. NW) and the San Francisco CA office (located at 535 Mission Street).

The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $149000 - $210000 for candidates working from a State Affairs office. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education qualification knowledge skills ability and experience of the final candidate(s) and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity. Benefits listed in this posting may vary depending on the nature of your employment with State Affairs.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship.

State Affairs is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. State Affairs does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender gender identity national origin veteran status disability or any other protected characteristic in accordance with federal state and local law.

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