About Cooklist

Cooklist is the AI grocery‑intelligence platform powering meal planning and shopping for millions of consumers across our consumer app and white‑label enterprise suite. Our mission is to combine the intelligence of a personal shopper, chef, and nutritionist to help people save time, eat better, and enjoy happier lives.

We’re profitable, process billions of dollars in transactions at the nation’s largest retailers, and our mobile experiences reach millions of people. We’re backed by Techstars, Mercury Fund, and industry leaders including the former CTO of Kroger and the Chief Product Officer of Amazon Fresh.

Role Overview

We’re hiring a Senior React Native Engineer to own and elevate Cooklist’s customer‑facing mobile experiences. You’ll ship agentic shopping assistants and real‑time grocery workflows used across major US retailers and the Cooklist app. This is a founding‑level seat on a tiny, formidable team: you’ll set architecture, shape the roadmap, and collaborate directly with the founders.

We are an AI‑leveraged engineering org. Your mandate includes orchestrating AI coding assistants to multiply your output by designing patterns, tests, and guardrails so AI can safely write and refactor code. Our impact is magnified by treating the codebase as a system that makes itself faster to build.

Responsibilities

Own our React Native apps end‑to‑end (iOS & Android): architecture, performance, reliability, polish.
Build and iterate agentic, real‑time experiences (GraphQL + WebSockets/streaming) for chat‑like shopping flows.
Integrate with our Python backend and AI services; help shape schemas, contracts, and mobile data flows.
Create repeatable patterns, component libraries, and testing strategies that enable AI‑assisted code generation.
Drive quality: crash‑free sessions, startup time, memory, JS & native perf, offline states, error handling, analytics.
Collaborate tightly with product/design; we ship first and refine fast, valuing both velocity and craftsmanship.
Help define our roadmap and product bets; bring a founder’s mindset to priorities, tradeoffs, and delivery.

Qualifications

Senior‑plus RN expertise. You’ve shipped serious React Native apps to millions (or comparable scale) and can go deep when needed: native modules/bridging, build pipelines (Xcode/Gradle), perf profiling, animations, and platform nuances.
TypeScript/JavaScript fluency and modern mobile tooling expertise (CI/CD, test automation, release management).
GraphQL in production (queries, mutations, pagination, caching) and comfort with real‑time streaming patterns.
Full‑stack friendly. You’re happy to jump into a Python backend when it unblocks the right mobile outcome.
AI‑oriented builder. You use AI coding assistants to accelerate delivery. Prompt design, test‑first scaffolding, guardrails, and review flows that let AI contribute safely and at scale.
Founder energy. High ownership, high bar for polish, gritty and persistent. You thrive on small‑team autonomy and intensity.

Our Stack

Language: Python/Django backend; Javascript/React Native frontend
APIs/Data: GraphQL; real‑time streaming over WebSockets
Mobile: React Native (close collaboration with the mobile team)
LLM engineering: internally built prompt/tool libraries, RAG pipelines & eval system

What We Offer

Competitive compensation + meaningful equity
Austin, TX based with WFH flexibility
Work directly with founders and an elite, tight‑knit team
Ship experiences that materially improve the lives of millions
A high‑intensity, high‑ownership environment designed for builders

Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native)