Senior Software Engineer, Mobile; React Native

About Forage

Forage is building the modern payments stack that powers inclusive commerce. Our technology enables grocers, delivery platforms, and point‑of‑sale systems to seamlessly accept EBT payments both online and in‑store. Beyond infrastructure we help SNAP EBT shoppers stretch their grocery budgets every week, making healthy food more affordable and accessible to the 42 million Americans on food assistance.

We seek an experienced Mobile Engineer with a strong background in building comprehensive user solutions and frontend infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of mobile development experience, ideally in React Native, and will have built a React Native app from scratch or significantly contributed to a production app.

You will lead large‑scale projects for our app for EBT shoppers, which allows them to check their SNAP balance, collect rewards and more. You will ship critical projects, establish best practices for frontend development, improve frontend infrastructure and tooling, balance business priorities with user experience and technical sustainability, and influence our technical vision.

• 3+ years of mobile engineering experience building end‑to‑end user solutions
• Experience in React Native, especially having built an app from scratch
• Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives within your team, mentoring engineers, contributing to roadmap discussions, and independently driving complex projects from design through execution

• Lead large multi‑engineer projects for the Forage EBT Shopper app.
• Balance business priorities, user experience, and technical sustainability in trade‑offs when prioritizing feature requests and engineering improvements.
• Influence frontend development at Forage by sharing technical vision and providing guidance.
• Improve frontend infrastructure and tooling to make teammates more effective.
• Mentor teammates and others around frontend best practices.

This role is Hybrid in New York only. We define hybrid as 2‑3 days in office.

• Senior Mobile Engineer: $185k – $200k base
• Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.
• 100% of Medical, Dental and Vision premium coverage for you and your dependents.
• Regular team lunches at our New York office, fostering collaboration and connection over great food.
• A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.
• A talented, high‑achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.

To maintain a fair and equitable hiring process for all candidates, we require that interviews and exercises be completed without the use of AI-powered tools. We assess candidates based on their direct experience, judgment, and communication.

Forage is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role. Applicants must have work authorization that does not require visa sponsorship now or in the future.