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title: 'Senior Software Engineer (React Native) at Straight Arrow'
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# Senior Software Engineer (React Native) at Straight Arrow

- **Company:** Straight Arrow
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-18
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/straightarrownews/jobs/4240386009

## Job description

About Us: Straight Arrow is fearlessly dedicated to exposing the hard truths in the stories that are dividing Americans today. We prize stories that connect to our audiences’ daily lives. Check us out at [www.san.com](http://www.san.com/) and on the Straight Arrow mobile app.

Straight Arrow is on a mission to restore trust in the news by delivering fair, fact-based journalism in a media landscape that too often prioritizes outrage over accuracy. Our small but mighty technology team builds and maintains the platforms that makes this mission possible, from the SAN.com mobile apps to the web experience and the infrastructure that ties it all together. We move fast, build thoughtfully, and believe the right engineer can make an outsized difference.

## The Role

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer specializing in React Native development for our customer-facing mobile app, built and shipped in tandem with work on the Straight Arrow website. You will own the mobile codebase end-to-end — from the React Native and Expo layer all the way down to native bridges we've already built into iOS and Android.

This is a deeply hands-on role. We're looking for an engineer whose primary impact is the code itself: the architecture you choose, the patterns you set in the codebase, the bugs you don't ship, the bar you hold in code review. But you'll also be a force multiplier for the entire engineering team, partnering with product, design, QA, and our web engineers to turn complex problems into shipped products.

If you're a strong senior engineer who's also been the person teammates lean on for technical direction, code review, mentorship, and "let me show you how I'd approach that," this role is built for you.

## What You'll Do

- Build new experiences that delight customers.
- Own architecture and day-to-day development of our React Native / Expo mobile application.
- Partner closely with our API engineers, not as a downstream consumer, but as a co-author of requirements and contracts.
- Work side-by-side with the web engineering team to ship cohesive, parallel experiences across platforms; coordinate shared patterns, shared concerns, and shared deadlines.
- Collaborate daily with product, design, and QA to translate ambiguous customer problems into clean, shippable solutions.
- Set the technical bar for the mobile codebase through architecture, code review, testing strategy, performance work, accessibility, and release engineering.
- Mentor and uplevel other engineers and act as a force multiplier rather than a single point of throughput.
- Drive technical decisions with a relentless customer focus: what we ship has to work, in the real world, on real devices, for real users.

## What We're Looking For

- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial recent experience in React Native development.
- Deep, demonstrated expertise with React Native across both iOS and Android, including the practical realities of cross-platform development (platform differences, native modules, performance, app store release processes).
- Hands-on experience using Expo as a development platform - managed workflow, EAS Build / Submit / Update, and the tradeoffs involved.
- Ability to write and maintain native bridges - comfort dropping into Swift/Objective-C and Kotlin/Java when needed.
- A strong customer focus, with a track record of building customer-facing enterprise applications that real people depend on.
- Experience working with an API, helping define requirements, shape contracts, and contribute to implementation decisions.
- Demonstrated technical leadership as a senior IC: setting architectural direction, raising code quality through review and example, and helping less-senior engineers grow through pairing and technical guidance.
- Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional partners in product, design, QA, and adjacent engineering teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication; comfort operating autonomously in a fully remote environment.

## Nice to Have

- Experience integrating with a WordPress backend.
- Experience with user management and subscription / paywall platforms such as Piano.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and mobile-specific delivery (TestFlight, Play Console, OTA updates via EAS).
- Experience working with consent management systems.
- Experience shipping in a media, news, or content-heavy product environment.

## Why This Role

- Small, focused team — your work and your judgment will be visible from day one.
- Real ownership of a customer-facing mobile codebase, not a slice of someone else's roadmap.
- Cross-functional partnership with product, design, QA, and web teams — fewer silos, more impact.
- Mission-driven work in a media environment that takes its responsibility to readers seriously.

The Straight Arrow Mindset

- Customer-focused - you realize that a great user experience is critical to the success of the company.
- Data-driven - understanding the importance of good data in driving product decisions.
- Collaborative - you brainstorm with fellow engineers to come up with solutions to problems. You work effectively with stakeholders, translating business needs into technical solutions.
- Learning-Oriented: You stay current with best practices and emerging mobile technologies.

## Compensation & Benefits

- The salary range for this position is $150,000-$165,000, depending on experience and qualifications.
- SAN offers comprehensive health and wellness coverage that ensures our employees have the care and coverage they need to stay healthy, build current and future financial security and maintain work-life balance. All full-time employees and their dependents are eligible to enroll in our benefits. That includes generous paid time off, paid holidays and floating holidays; health coverage, vision and dental plans; retirement plans like the company's 401(k) plan with company match; and more.

Straight Arrow is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees, regardless of race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status.

## About Straight Arrow

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Straight Arrow News (SAN) is a digital news startup committed to delivering unbiased, nonpartisan, fact-based reporting across politics, business, tech, energy, and international affairs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (founder-funded; bootstrapped by CEO Joe Ricketts)
- **Headquarters**: Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Joe Ricketts

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Internet News / Digital Media / Journalism
- **Target customers**: B2C – U.S. and global consumers seeking fact-based, balanced news coverage; also partners like Jubilee Media for fact-checking.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Raise the bar on journalism in a time of media bias and mistrust” by providing “unbiased news, without agenda” and “fear no fact” [san.com/about](https://san.com/about/).

## Products & Services
- **[SAN News Website & App]**: A digital news platform delivering stories across politics, business, tech, energy, military, and lifestyle. Features include article summaries, “why it matters” sections, and a source transparency list. Available on Android and iOS; relaunched June 2025 with a redesigned interface [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Arrow_News).
- **[Media Miss™ Tool]**: A real-time tool that identifies which stories are underreported (or not reported) by left- and right-leaning mainstream outlets, built in partnership with Ground News. Helps users “get a complete picture of the news” [san.com/about](https://san.com/about/).
- **Fact-Checking Service (partnership)**: In 2025, SAN partnered with Jubilee Media to provide on-screen fact-checks for the “Surrounded” debate shows [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Arrow_News).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $9.9 million (2025) [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Arrow_News). Total funding: N/A (founder-funded by Joe Ricketts).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Founder-funded by Joe Ricketts (billionaire, former CEO of TD Ameritrade); advisory board includes journalists from across the ideological spectrum; partnerships with AllSides, Ad Fontes Media, NewsGuard, and Ground News.
- **Growth Signals**: The app saw a 1,170% increase in traffic from June 2024 to June 2025; Wikipedia reports 71 employees (July 2025) while LinkedIn shows 52 employees (-29.7% YoY, likely reflecting recent departures); global monthly visits ~677K (LinkedIn data as of mid-2026, down 72.9% YoY). Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) revised SAN’s reliability rating to “Mostly Factual” in 2024 due to variability in Media Miss sources, but AllSides rates it Center, Ad Fontes calls it Middle/Balanced, and NewsGuard gives a perfect 100/100 reliability score.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unbiased positioning**: Verified by third-party watchdogs (AllSides, Ad Fontes, NewsGuard) as consistently centrist and fact-based – a rare claim in a polarized media environment.
- **Media Miss™ tool**: Proprietary transparency feature that highlights coverage gaps across partisan outlets, differentiating SAN from other centrist news sites.
- **Founder independence**: Entirely funded by Joe Ricketts with no outside investors or advertisers dictating editorial direction, allowing a mission-first approach.
- **Journalist pedigree**: Team comes from outlets like Axios, TEGNA, Nexstar, and Scripps, bringing credibility and industry experience.

## Strategic Focus
- **Digital-first growth**: Continued investment in the mobile app, video content, and programmatic advertising to reach younger, digitally-native audiences.
- **Expanding vertical coverage**: Hiring for specialized reporters (e.g., Food & Agriculture Reporter) to deepen beat-specific journalism.
- **Partnerships & brand trust**: Leveraging third-party audits (AllSides, NewsGuard) and partnerships (Jubilee Media) to build authority and user trust.
- **Audience monetization**: Growing newsletter subscriber base, app traffic, and programmatic ad revenue (reported $9.9M in 2025) while maintaining a lean, tech-driven operation.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: Opportunity to work on a high-impact journalism mission focused on combating media bias and restoring trust in news [san.com/careers](https://san.com/careers/).
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health, vision, dental; six weeks paid leave for expectant mothers; Employee Assistance Program; competitive pay; 401k plan; generous PTO, holidays, and floating holidays [san.com/careers](https://san.com/careers/).
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated; HQ in Omaha, Nebraska, with additional offices in New York, Washington DC, and other U.S. locations. LinkedIn shows 4 offices across the U.S. Some roles may be remote-friendly based on job postings.
- **Notable perks**: Cutting-edge tech stack (React, TypeScript, Snowflake, Amplitude, etc.) – a strong environment for engineers and data-minded journalists. Small team with flat hierarchy (2% C-level, 4% directors). Recent departures suggest some instability, but also opportunity for new leadership.
- **Open roles**: At time of research, only one active role listed (Food and Agriculture Reporter) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/straight-arrow-news). This may indicate a selective, slow-growth hiring approach.

## Sources
1. [san.com/about](https://san.com/about/)
2. [san.com/careers](https://san.com/careers/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/straight-arrow-news](https://www.linkedin.com/company/straight-arrow-news)
4. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Arrow_News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Arrow_News)
5. [san.com](https://san.com/)

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