VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant’s sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Versant Media

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

About the Role:

We're looking for an experienced Senior React Native Software Engineer to help design, build, and evolve high-quality mobile experiences for iOS and Android. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with deep experience delivering production React Native applications. You will influence mobile architecture, write maintainable and well-tested code, and collaborate closely with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering throughout the software development lifecycle. You should be comfortable taking ownership from initial design through release, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Do

Design, build, test, and maintain scalable React Native applications for iOS and Android.Develop reusable, accessible, and high-performing components using React Native and TypeScript.Guide architectural decisions across navigation, state management, data access, and native integrations.Integrate REST and GraphQL APIs, authentication services, analytics platforms, and third-party SDKs.Own features from technical design through testing, release, monitoring, and production support.Partner with Product, Design, QA, and backend engineers to deliver effective technical solutions.Improve application performance, reliability, automated testing, CI/CD, tooling, and release processes.Contribute through code reviews, technical discussions, knowledge sharing, and responsible technical-debt reduction.

Qualifications

What We're Looking For:

5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building and supporting production React Native applications.Strong proficiency with React Native, React, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript across iOS and Android.Strong understanding of mobile architecture, navigation, state management, component design, data persistence, and platform-specific behavior.Experience integrating REST or GraphQL APIs, authentication, and third-party services.Experience with automated testing, mobile build and signing, and Apple App Store and Google Play release processes.Ability to produce clean, secure, testable, and maintainable code using sound engineering practices.Strong ownership, communication, and problem-solving skills within a distributed engineering team.Experience using AI-assisted development tools or integrating AI into products or engineering workflows.

Bonus Points

Experience with mobile CI/CD, over-the-air releases, observability, crash reporting, push notifications, deep linking, offline workflows, accessibility, or internationalization.Experience building high-traffic consumer applications or integrating payments, digital wallets, or native hardware.Experience with ticketing, concessions, point-of-sale, inventory, ordering, loyalty, cinema, entertainment, or hospitality platforms.Familiarity with Node.js, Ruby on Rails, relational databases, Redis, or AWS.

Work Location  This role has been designated as fully remote and is expected to be performed primarily from an employee's residence. Occasional travel is required, primarily within the United States several times a year and, in rare circumstances, globally.

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com.

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.

Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (React Native)

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