A portfolio. A demo reel, a personal site, a GitHub of interaction sketches, screen captures of work you've shipped that you're proud of. We don't care which format; we care that we can see your craft
Deep React Native fluency. You know Reanimated well enough to argue with people about it. You've fought gesture handlers. You've profiled JS thread vs. UI thread work and won. You can read a frame timeline and tell us where the time went
Taste in motion. You have opinions about easing curves. You notice when a spring is over-damped. You can articulate why a transition feels wrong before you know how to fix it
Product judgment. You can take a half-formed brief, find the actual problem inside it, and ship something better than what anyone thought to ask for. You shape what the spec should have been rather than wait for it to arrive
AI tools as part of how you work. Cursor, Copilot, Claude, whatever your stack is. You use them to move faster on the parts that aren't the craft so you can spend longer on the parts that are
Written and verbal English. We're globally distributed and live in docs and async threads
React Native Skia, shader work, or custom canvas-based rendering for non-standard UI
Real native experience. Enough Swift or Kotlin to write a bridge module, and enough platform knowledge to know when one's the right call
A motion library, design-system contribution, or interaction primitive set that other engineers picked up and used
A visual or motion design background. You prototype in Figma, After Effects, or on paper before (or instead of) writing code
High-stakes product experience in fintech, trading, health, or anywhere UI precision is load-bearing
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