We seek an experienced React Native Engineer to join our SDK development team. This is a full-time position in our Amsterdam office or remote from EMEA.

What you will be doing

You will mainly be responsible for building, maintaining, and taking ownership of Stream’s React Native SDKs (Chat and Video) to allow integration with Stream’s core APIs. Your work will be used by thousands of engineers and consumed by billions of their end-users.

As one of Stream’s React Native engineers, you strive to simplify how applications are built. Most of your day will be dedicated to software design, research, and coding. You will be expected to write documentation for the libraries we create and interact with our customers through Github by responding to issues and reviewing pull requests. In addition to feature additions and maintenance, you will also be involved in developer relations for the React Native SDKs.

Responsibilities

Develop, debug, maintain and enhance existing React Native SDKs.
Work across multiple teams to provide technical insight on product and feature development.
Collaborate with backend teams to ensure feature parity across SDKs.
Pivot, jump in, and assist in the development/maintenance of other JS SDKs.
Assist customers with implementation, respond to GitHub issues and review open-source contributions.

About You

As a team member, you must be excited to grow with Stream. At our core, we are a startup - you should be able to act quickly, thrive in uncertainty, and love pivoting to new technologies.

You have

Been working as a software engineer for 5+ years.
Professional experience with JavaScript/React Native and at least one other programming language.
Computer Science fundamentals.
A deep understanding of design and interaction with REST APIs
Experience with TDD and CI/CD.
Experience building libraries or tools that are used by engineers.
TypeScript experience.

Bonus points

Experience interacting with other engineers on Github (opening issues, open-source contributions, or maintenance)
Other technical experience with native iOS/Android and NodeJS.

Our tech stack

At Stream, we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimized and available features to our customers. Here is a short list of the technology that we currently use in the React Native team:

React
React Native
React Native Testing library
Detox
Yarn Workspaces/Lerna
GitHub Actions
Expo
Flipper (We even wrote our Flipper plugin)
Dcousarus
Firebase
Sentry
Jest
Vitest
RxJS

And many more…

Why join Stream?

History of success. From Amsterdam to Boulder and Techstars in-between, Stream has raised over $58.25M to build the best Chat Messaging & Activity Feed infrastructure available, with best-in-class support.
Freedom and endless growth opportunities. As a rapidly growing startup (since 2020 we have gone from 30 to 150 employees), Stream gives you unique personal and professional growth opportunities. The opportunity of true ownership and accountability has a massive impact on your career. These are the things you can rarely experience in huge corporations.
Be on the front line of progress and innovation. While working with cutting-edge technology, we are passionate about tackling difficult tech problems at scale and creating reusable components for them, empowering engineering teams to ship apps faster, more securely, and with a better user experience.
They believe in us: Stream is backed by leading VC companies (Felicis Ventures, GGV Capital, 01.Advisors, Techstars, Arthur Ventures), including backers like Dick Costolo (01 Advisors, ex-CEO of Twitter), Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Tom Preston-Werner (Co-Founder of GitHub), Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-Founder of Algolia), Johnny Boufarhat (Founder and CEO of Hopin).
Complete location and working hours flexibility. If you prefer working from the office, working 100% remotely, combining both, or relocating to our AMS office, you have total freedom to choose what works best for you and makes you happy. We’re here to support you in being productive and feeling part of the team, no matter where you are.

What we have to offer you

Stream employees enjoy some of the best benefits in the industry:

A team of exceptional engineers
The chance to work on OSS projects
28 days paid time off plus paid Dutch holidays
Company equity
A pension scheme
Remote work flexibility
A Learning and Development budget
NS business card or a company bike covered
Fitness stipend
Monthly in-office chair massages by a professional
Parental leave paid at 100%
MacBook Pro provided
Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks
A generous relocation package
An office in the heart of Amsterdam
The opportunity to attend or present at global conferences and meetups
The possibility to visit our office in Boulder, CO

Note: this list of benefits applies to Netherlands-based employees and is adjusted per your location of residence.

Our culture

Stream has a casual social culture, our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds. Now, Stream is a team of over 130+ peers from over 35 countries across the globe.

We value transparency, aim for excellence, and support each other on our way to new victories.

Our team consists of the strongest talents worldwide, making Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills.

When it comes to software engineering, our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality: our goal is to deliver stable software.

If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now!

Stream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

No recruiters/agencies please

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