[Remote] Senior Product Engineer, React Native + Backend (Contract)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Base is a platform for in-real-life social connection and community. They are seeking a senior, hands-on engineer to audit and stabilize a consumer mobile product and its internal admin tool, HomeBase, focusing on React Native, TypeScript, and backend APIs.
Responsibilities
- Audit the React Native and TypeScript mobile app and the related HomeBase admin flows
- Review backend and API structure, database models, and the business logic around bookings, guests, cancellations, refunds, credits, and notifications
- Identify technical debt, broken workflows, security risks, stale code, and missing tests
- Review Linear and project artifacts, and compare planned work against actual implementation
- Produce a prioritized technical recovery plan
- Ship or supervise one small but meaningful stabilization fix during the engagement
- Recommend the exact team needed to continue: mobile, backend, data, QA, design, or fractional CTO
Skills
- Senior or staff-level experience with React Native and TypeScript
- Strong backend experience with APIs and relational databases
- Experience with payments, refunds, booking systems, marketplaces, memberships, or operational and admin tooling
- The ability to read messy code and make judgment calls quickly
- Strong written communication: you can explain risks clearly to a non-technical founder or operator
- Comfort working without perfect specs
- Experience with Metabase or analytics cleanup
- Experience migrating away from NativeBase, NativeWind, or inconsistent styling systems
- Experience with mobile release pipelines, QA automation, push notifications, and email workflows
- Prior startup rescue, code audit, or fractional CTO experience
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