For a cross-platform app that can't afford to feel like a web view

Hire React Native Developers

React Native's promise is one codebase that still feels native. The gap between that promise and reality usually shows up as a janky list, a broken deep link, or a routine version bump that breaks both native builds at once. These engineers are tested against those exact failure points, then placed inside the app your users actually touch.

  • Profiles typically within two business days
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How we evaluate a React Native engineer

The tasks, the signals and the onboarding, walked through by the people who run them.

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01Published, not promised

The assessment behind every engineer we send.

The React Native bar is published, not assumed: five competencies, the exact task behind each, and the shortcut that ends a candidacy. Most interviews ask about component props. This one asks whether the app actually feels native under load.

What we listen forWhether they profile the actual bottleneck, not just reach for FlatList optimisation tips.

The task we set

A contact list scrolls smoothly with fifty mock rows and janks badly with five thousand real ones. Diagnose it.

What strong sounds like
Profiles with Flipper or the built-in performance monitor, identifies the specific bridge or render cost, and proposes a targeted fix.
What gives us pause
Applies generic list-optimisation advice from a blog post without profiling to confirm it addresses this app's actual bottleneck.
Core

React Native · TypeScript · Hermes

Native

Native Modules · JSI · Swift/Kotlin bridges

Testing

Jest · Detox · React Native Testing Library

Tooling

Metro · Flipper · Fastlane

02Who you actually meet

The bench, priced by seniority.

Three seniority tiers, priced honestly, and the engineers who fill each one today. Real names and photos take their place as soon as we can share them, and the standard stays exactly the same.

Engineer

Features scoped tightly enough to ship inside your review bar, every time.

The right first hire when your seniors already set the standard.

$2,400–3,100per month

Senior

The hard module nobody else wants to own, taken end to end.

Ownership of a surface, without adding a manager to your headcount.

$3,400–4,300per month

Lead

The workstream's decisions, made daily, so nothing waits on a meeting.

One accountable voice for a pod or initiative that can't afford to drift.

$4,600–5,800per month

  • React Native engineer

    3 yrs · US East overlap

    Diagnosed a bridge-performance bottleneck that only appeared past a thousand real list rows

    • React Native
    • TypeScript
    • Jest

  • Senior React Native engineer

    7 yrs · UK + EU hours

    Fixed a deep-link routing bug that had been silently misrouting users for months

    • React Native
    • Hermes
    • Detox
    • Native Modules

  • Lead React Native engineer

    10 yrs · EU + US split

    Turned a routine version upgrade that always broke native builds into a routine, low-risk process

    • React Native
    • Architecture
    • JSI
    • CI/CD

Indicative ranges, representative profiles. Exact figures and named engineers arrive with your shortlist.

Weighing this against a freelancer, a direct hire or a marketplace? See the honest comparison

03From stated problem to first change

Four steps, each closing on evidence.

What gets tested here is cross-platform behaviour under real conditions, not a list of packages installed. Each step ends with evidence, and stopping partway owes us nothing.

  1. Define the platform problem

    We start from where your app's cross-platform behaviour is genuinely fragile, on one platform or both. The brief names that fragility, not a list of React Native packages to know.

    A brief your leads sign

  2. Match against your app

    Candidates are screened against your actual native-module surface, your navigation setup and your review culture. Three engineers who understand your app beat thirty who list React Native on a CV.

    Three fits, not thirty CVs

  3. Assess on the real tasks

    Bring your own engineers to the bridge-performance and platform-divergence exercises. Judgement under real cross-platform load is visible here, not a rehearsed demo.

    Evaluation you can watch

  4. Onboard inside your process

    Access, standards and a first bounded fix shipped to both platforms. Continuity cover means we absorb a departure before it ever reaches your release train.

    A merged change in week one

04Evidence and proof

Engineers who made cross-platform actually feel native.

React Native proof is performance that holds at real scale, not a demo with fifty rows of fake data. Every record here waits for written client approval before production.

Explore case studies
A React Native list scrolling smoothly at real data volume.
Koru Health · Healthcare product, US

A contact list that scrolled smoothly at five thousand real rows, not fifty demo ones.

Koru Health's patient list scrolled fine in every demo and janked badly the day it hit real clinic data. An embedded React Native engineer diagnosed the bridge overhead and fixed it without dropping to native code.

Scroll frame drops at scale
Eliminated
Native rewrite required
None
Sample · pending client approval
Portrait of a product VP discussing a React Native deep-link fix.

He fixed a deep-link bug that had been silently misrouting users for months before anyone noticed.

Anika RaoVP Product, Koru Health
Sample · pending client approval
Portrait of a CTO discussing React Native upgrade discipline.

A routine version upgrade that used to break both platforms finally stopped being an event on our calendar.

Daniel MercerCTO, Vela Ledger
Sample · pending client approval

05Three shapes, one standard

Add an engineer, a mobile pod, or a practice.

Most engagements start with a single engineer joining an app already in flight. Some need a pod that owns the cross-platform surface end to end. When delivering the app matters more than filling a role, the practice carries that weight instead.

  • One named engineer

    A single React Native specialist inside your direction and your reviews. The smallest commitment, and where most engagements begin.

    Team extension

  • A mobile pod

    A pod with its own lead that owns the React Native app end to end, both platforms included. You set priorities while the pod carries delivery.

    Delivery pods

  • The practice, not the person

    When delivering the finished app matters more than adding a name to the roster, mobile app development owns that accountability instead.

    Mobile app development

06Straight answers

Asked before a React Native hire is signed.

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What does a React Native engineer actually do day to day?

Integrates native modules where JavaScript can't reach, keeps navigation and deep links correct across app states, and profiles bridge performance so lists and animations hold up at real data volume. The unglamorous majority of the work is keeping both platforms building through routine upgrades.

Do you hire for the old bridge architecture or the new architecture?

Matched to your actual codebase. Performance and native-integration judgement transfers across both, then the evaluation confirms familiarity with whichever your app runs.

Can we run our own interviews as well?

Yes, the published tasks are built to be reused directly. Several clients now run the bridge-performance exercise themselves in later hiring rounds.

How fast can a React Native engineer start?

A shortlist arrives within days from a bench evaluated continuously. Onboarding speed after that depends mostly on how quickly your side can open up repository and native-tooling access.

Who manages the engineer day to day?

Your leads run the standups and set the roadmap. What we carry instead is the employment layer around the person: continuity, payroll, replacement risk and the handoff if circumstances change.

What if the engineer is not the right fit?

Let us know right away and the cost of replacing them is ours. The next developer gets briefed on the exact miss, so it is very rarely a repeat problem.

Do your React Native developers use AI coding tools?

Yes, openly. AI drafts component scaffolding and test suites quickly; the engineer stays accountable for every native-integration decision, performance fix and merge that reaches your app.

How does pricing work for a hired React Native engineer?

The bands above hold for this role; your shortlist will carry the confirmed number per engineer. Monthly billing, no placement fee, and a notice period covers the exit.