Senior Development Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 1500000 - Rs 2500000 (ie INR 15 - 25 LPA)

Min Experience: 3 years

Location: Bengaluru

JobType: full-time

We are building Bharat’s most personalized, culturally rooted astrology app. Our product delivers daily horoscopes, Kundli insights, muhurat planning, and spiritual guidance with a deeply emotional, shareable UX — crafted for India’s next billion users.

What You’ll Do

• Lead development of a high-performance React Native app used by millions daily.
  
   
• Own architecture, code quality, performance, and reliability for mobile.
  
   
• Build animation-rich, devotional-first experiences (Reanimated, Lottie, Skia).
  
   
• Drive offline-first capabilities (SQLite, MMKV, caching strategies).
  
   
• Partner with product/design to craft beautiful, culturally aligned UI flows.
  
   
• Collaborate with backend & ML teams to integrate real-time astrology, RAG, and personalization services.
  
   
• Mentor junior engineers; raise the engineering bar on mobile best practices.
  
   
• Champion performance monitoring, release stability, A/B tests, and analytics-driven iterations.
  
   

You Should Have

• 3–5 years of professional experience with React Native, deep expertise in RN internals.
  
• Strong command of JavaScript/TypeScript, React, gesture systems, and native bridges.

• Experience architecting large-scale mobile apps (modularization, performance tuning).
   
• Solid understanding of iOS/Android build pipelines, OTA updates, and CI/CD.
  
• Ability to convert high-emotion UI/UX into pixel-perfect mobile experiences.
  
• Strong debugging skills — crashes, memory leaks, perf issues, edge cases.
  
   

Bonus Points

• Experience with Hindi/regional language apps or shareable content engines.
  
• Built apps with daily rituals (meditation, journaling, devotional).
  
• Exposure to LLM-based personalization, ML APIs, or observability tools.
  
   

Why Join Us

• Own the flagship mobile experience of a culturally powerful consumer product.
  
• Build for millions in a category with insane growth + loyalty.
  
• Work with a sharp team across ML, backend, design, and astrology.
  
• Fast ownership, high autonomy, and meaningful equity.
  
   

Skills

React Native

Python