Senior React Native Dev at Ruby Labs - Remote CET — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
CET ± 4 Hours: Your Digital Nomad Sweet Spot
This role is structured around CET (UTC+1/+2) with a ±4-hour flexibility window, meaning you can work from UTC-3 to UTC+6. That opens up a wide range of nomad-friendly destinations without sacrificing overlap hours.
- Lisbon, Portugal (UTC+0/+1): Perfect fit — comfortably within the CET window. Monthly costs of €1,500–€2,200 for a comfortable lifestyle make it one of Europe's best value nomad hubs. Portugal's D8 Digital Nomad Visa is ideal for contractors.
- Tbilisi, Georgia (UTC+4): Sits right at the outer edge of the allowed timezone. Very low cost of living (~$1,000–$1,500/month), no visa required for most nationalities for up to 365 days, and a booming nomad community.
- Bangkok, Thailand (UTC+7): Just outside the ±4 window from CET, making this destination a poor fit without schedule gymnastics.
Contract Structure: This is an independent contractor role, which is excellent for nomads — you handle your own taxes and are free to base yourself almost anywhere within the timezone band. No employer-of-record restrictions.
Travel-relevant perks include a company-provided MacBook (no need to lug your own hardware) and unlimited PTO, giving you full control over when to take extended travel breaks between sprints.
The async-friendly signals are moderate — expect some synchronous collaboration given the team coordination requirements, but the fully remote setup means no fixed desk location.
About Us
Ruby Labs is a leading tech company that creates and operates innovative consumer products. We offer a diverse range of opportunities across the health, education, and entertainment industries. Our innovative teams are driving the future of consumer-led products, and we're always looking for passionate individuals to join us. Learn more about our story at: https://rubylabs.com/about-us/
About the Role
At Ruby Labs we're looking for a Senior React Native Developer to join our growing engineering team and help lead our expansion into mobile. This is a role for someone who cares deeply about product quality, enjoys solving architectural challenges, and wants ownership over real features that users rely on.
You'll play a key role in building and scaling our mobile applications, shaping the future of our mobile offering, and collaborating closely with backend and product teams to deliver a seamless, reliable, and high-performance user experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development and delivery of new mobile product features.
- Maintain and improve the existing React Native codebase, performance, and stability.
- Define and evolve mobile architecture, system design, and technical strategy.
- Partner with backend, product, and design teams to shape solutions that scale.
- Drive reliability, performance, and observability standards on mobile.
- Own production debugging, incident investigation, and root cause analysis.
- Guide improvements in build systems, CI/CD, releases, testing, and app store deployments.
- Support hiring and help grow a world-class mobile engineering team.
- Champion performance across rendering, navigation, latency, memory, offline behavior, caching, and real-time experiences.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building mobile applications, with significant React Native experience.
- Experience mentoring engineers through code reviews, architecture, and incident response is a strong plus.
- Strong understanding of mobile system design, component architecture, state management, navigation patterns, and performance trade-offs.
- Experience optimizing UI performance, memory usage, rendering efficiency, and startup time.
- Deep knowledge of React internals and rendering behavior (hooks, reconciliation, lifecycle, render cost).
- Experience working with native modules and iOS/Android bridging.
- Shipped and maintained apps on the App Store and Google Play.
- Experience with CI/CD, builds, release automation, and OTA updates (EAS, CodePush, or similar).
- Experience implementing monitoring and observability (Sentry, OpenTelemetry, crash reporting, performance tracing).
- Demonstrated ownership of edge cases, distributed failure modes, degraded APIs, offline sync, and recovery UX.
- Demonstrated ability to lead architecture or technical strategy for a mobile app or major feature.
- Maintains high standards for clean code, SOLID principles, maintainability, and documentation.
Nice to Have
- Experience in startup or high-ownership product teams.
- Experience scaling real-time or multi-region mobile architectures.
- Experience designing or building design systems, shared component libraries, or mobile platform foundations.
- Experience improving mobile security, analytics, performance profiling, and release automation.
- Knowledge of edge caching, streaming real-time events, WebSockets, or offline-first architectures.
Location
Ruby Labs operates within the CET (Central European Time) zone. Applicants from any country are welcome to apply for the position as long as they are located within approximately ± 4 hours of CET. This ensures optimal collaboration and communication during working hours.
Benefits
- Remote Work Environment: Embrace the freedom to work from anywhere, anytime, promoting a healthy work-life balance.
- Unlimited PTO: Enjoy unlimited paid time off to recharge and prioritize your well-being, without counting days.
- Paid National Holidays: Celebrate and relax on national holidays with paid time off to unwind and recharge.
- Company-provided MacBook: Experience seamless productivity with top-notch Apple MacBooks provided to all employees who need them.
- Flexible Independent Contractor Agreement: Unlock the benefits of flexibility, autonomy, and entrepreneurial opportunities. Benefit from tax advantages, networking opportunities, reduced employment obligations, and the freedom to work from anywhere. Read more about it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nkrN76JlZkbKj9WSOhlT1_mni_CZeDkHdwfIjPXVwvk/preview?tab=t.0#heading=h.ndsdl4wapxtt
Be part of our fast-growing team and seize this excellent opportunity for personal and professional growth!
Interview Process
After submitting your application, we conduct a thorough review which typically takes 3 to 5 days, but may occasionally take longer due to the volume of applications received. If we see a potential fit, we proceed with the following steps:
- Recruiter Screening (40 minutes)
- Technical Interview (90 minutes)
- Final Interview (60 minutes)
Life at Ruby Labs
At Ruby Labs, we move fast, aim high, and expect the same from our team. We're not here to play small—we're here to build, grow, and win. That means we look for people who are ambitious, driven, and ready to give their best every single day.
This is a place for individuals who thrive under pressure, embrace challenges, and see opportunity in every obstacle. If you're hungry to achieve, motivated by impact, and want to grow at the speed of your own ambition, Ruby Labs offers the platform to make it happen.
Here, effort is matched with reward. We recognize those who go all in and deliver results, and we create space for people who want more—more responsibility, more growth, and more success.
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