Full-Stack Product Engineer, React Native Mobile

About the Role

We are looking for a Full-stack Product Engineer to build the next-generation mobile experience for our AI-powered music creation platform. This role sits at the intersection of product engineering, user experience, and mobile performance. You will own major user-facing features—from building a world-class music player to shipping real-time AI generation flows and socially driven interactions—while shaping the overall feel, responsiveness, and quality of the app.

Your work will directly impact creators and listeners around the world. You will architect intuitive experiences, implement best-in-class UI engineering, and push React Native to its limits for high-performance audio, real-time feedback, and seamless interactive design. If you have a passion for beautifully crafted consumer apps and enjoy owning features end-to-end, you will thrive here.

You will collaborate closely with design, product, backend, and ML teams, and leverage technologies like React Native, TypeScript, native modules (iOS/Android), audio frameworks, and lightweight state management tools. Experience with native performance tuning, gesture-heavy interactions, or audio playback systems is a strong plus.

What You’ll Do

• Build immersive, high-performance mobile features using React Native, including music playback, AI generation flows, and interactive audio tools.
• Design and implement a world-class music player, supporting playlists, waveform displays, scrubbing, offline caching, background audio, and seamless transitions.
• Own creator tools and generative experiences, integrating backend APIs and ML workflows into fluid, intuitive mobile UIs.
• Develop core social features, such as profiles, feeds, comments, notifications, and sharing surfaces.
• Ship polished UI/UX with thoughtful animations, gesture systems, microinteractions, and delightful product details.
• Push React Native and mobile performance, optimizing startup time, navigation, component rendering, memory usage, and audio responsiveness.\
• Collaborate closely with design, ensuring pixel-perfect implementations and high-quality interaction design.
• Bridge native modules (iOS/Android) when needed to unlock performance, audio capabilities, or hardware access beyond React Native’s abstractions.
• Work with backend engineers to define APIs, contracts, and data structures supporting product experiences. Even better if you can do this on your own
• Instrument analytics and feature experiments, ensuring clarity around user behavior, engagement, and iteration paths.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, helping shape the mobile codebase, design systems, and long-term technical foundation.

What We’re Looking For

• Deep experience building and shipping React Native applications at scale.
• Strong ability to own product experiences end-to-end—from architecture to UI polish.
• Expertise in mobile UI/UX, animation, and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with audio playback systems, waveform rendering, low-latency interactions, or related domains.
• Proficiency with TypeScript, modern React patterns, and state management tools (Zustand, React Query, etc.).
• Strong product intuition: you care about the quality and emotional impact of the user experience.
• Experience integrating REST APIs into mobile applications.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with designers, backend, ML, and product teams.
• Ability to deliver quickly, iteratively, and with high craftsmanship.

Nice to Have

• Native mobile experience in Android (Kotlin) or iOS (Swift/Objective-C)—especially for audio, media playback, or performance-sensitive modules.
• Familiarity with audio frameworks (ExoPlayer, AVFoundation, Superpowered, WebAudio, etc.).
• Experience with gesture libraries, animations (Reanimated, Skia), or custom UI components.
• Knowledge of offline-first architectures, background tasks, or file-system based caching.
• Exposure to ML-powered features, on-device compute, or real-time generation flows.
• Experience building social or community-driven apps.
• Background contributing to design systems or scalable component libraries.

Why Join Us

• You’ll build the core mobile experience that creators use daily to generate, edit, and share music.
• You’ll shape the product’s identity—its feel, its responsiveness, its delight.
• You’ll work at the frontier of AI x creativity, shipping features that don’t exist anywhere else.
• You’ll join a small, fast-moving team where your ideas and craftsmanship will define a category-defining consumer app.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary and equity 
• Flexible time off (~25 days PTO/year)
• Fantastic office location in Manhattan
• Productivity package, including ChatGPT Plus and Copilot
• Top notch private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• 401(k) plan options with 5% employer matching 
• Concierge medical/primary care through One Medical and Rightway
• Mental health support from Spring Health
• Personalized life insurance, travel assistance, and many other perks

Udio’s success hinges on hiring great people and creating an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work. 

Udio provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

This role is eligible for a compensation package of base salary, equity, and benefits. The starting base salary range for this role is $120,000 - $220,000. Actual salary may vary based on level, work experience, performance, and other factors evaluated during the hiring process.