As the Staff Mobile Engineer, you will own the end-to-end mobile platform for Madison Reed’s React Native application. You’ll architect high-performance experiences across iOS and Android, driving technical strategy and integrating cutting-edge AI features. This contract role requires a high-ownership mindset to lead infrastructure, mentor engineers, and bridge the gap between digital and physical beauty services.
Staff Mobile Engineer at Madison Reed
Madison Reed is looking for a Staff Mobile Engineer to own their React Native ecosystem from end-to-end. This is a unique opportunity to lead the mobile strategy for a brand disrupting the $50B hair care industry, backed by True Ventures and Norwest. You’ll architect high-performance apps, build AI-powered features, and leverage frontier agentic coding tools like Claude Code to accelerate development. If you have 8+ years of experience and a passion for premium mobile UX, join Madison Reed to redefine how millions of customers interact with beauty technology. This contract role offers $80-$85/hr for a US-based expert ready to drive technical excellence.
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Location
United States
Compensation
$80-$85/hr
Company
Madison Reed
Role overview
Madison Reed is a prestige beauty and personal care company that specializes in salon-quality hair color and hair care products for at-home use and in its own Hair Color Bar salons.[1][3][12] Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, it focuses on gentler, nutrient-rich formulations that are free from harsh ingredients such as ammonia, resorcinol, parabens, phthalates, PPD, and gluten, while including conditioning components like keratin and argan oil.[1][4][11][17] The company operates an omnichannel model: it sells directly to consumers via its madison-reed.com e‑commerce site and subscription services, offers virtual consultations with licensed colorists using photos and online tools, and provides professional coloring services, blowouts, and related hair treatments at dozens of Madison Reed Hair Color Bar locations.[3][7][16][17][18] Its products and services target customers seeking personalized, cruelty‑free, professional-grade hair color, with distribution across its own channels and major retail partners including Ulta Beauty, Target, Amazon, Walmart, and other outlets.[7][17][18][23]
What you will do
- Architect, build, and ship the React Native application using the Expo ecosystem, managing EAS pipelines, config plugins, and over-the-air updates.
- Lead the integration of AI-powered capabilities, including personalized recommendations and LLM-backed conversational interfaces, directly into the native mobile experience.
- Establish technical direction and rigorous engineering standards for mobile performance, navigation, and reliability, ensuring a premium native-feeling experience for all users.
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep specialization in React Native, Expo, and managing complex mobile infrastructure at scale.
- Demonstrates a workflow fundamentally altered by AI tools, with a proven ability to audit and verify agentic code while maintaining high technical skepticism.
- Has a track record of technical leadership, successfully designing maintainable architectures and breaking large, ambiguous business initiatives into actionable, high-impact workstreams.
Why this role is remarkable
- Total ownership of a mission-critical platform that serves as the primary daily touchpoint for millions of customers across e-commerce, appointments, and memberships.
- Work at the forefront of AI-forward development, both by building agent-driven mobile features and utilizing frontier agentic coding tools like Claude Code to accelerate your workflow.
- Influence a scaling brand backed by powerhouse investors like True Ventures and Norwest, while working directly on complex native modules like AR virtual try-on and Live Activities.
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