Software Engineer, Mobile at Replit (Foster City, CA)
Replit· Foster City, CA· $130k–$300k·
Role details
Competitive Salary · Equity · 401(K) Program With 4% Match · Health Insurance · Dental Insurance · Vision Insurance · Life Insurance · Short Term Disability
Replit at a glance
Agentic software creation platform that turns plain-English ideas into working, deployed apps.
Replit lets anyone build and ship software by describing it in natural language. Its AI agent plans, writes, tests, and deploys code inside a browser-based full-stack platform that bundles an IDE, database, authentication, hosting, and monitoring.
~$922M across nine rounds (Tracxn) raised · latest: Series D · $400M · March 2026 · $9B valuation · backed by Georgian, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Coatue, Y Combinator
Summary
Shape the Agent experience on mobile by building innovative features and interacting with mobile UI/UX. The role involves collaborating with designers to streamline app creation, optimizing performance, and improving observability using TypeScript, React, and React Native.
Job description
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
About The Role: In this role, you will shape our end to end user experience (where user builds and publishes native mobile applications, and also uses the Replit mobile app to build apps), build innovative new features and interactions, and enable anyone with a phone to create software for their phones and assist with our mobile UI/UX. Our mobile app is built with Typescript, React, React Native, Expo, and Apollo/GraphQL, Swift, and Kotlin.
Who You Are: We're looking for mobile-focused developers who can thrive in a React Native environment and are also passionate about mobile UI/UX. You fit this role if you match one of these profiles:
- The React Native Expert You're an experienced React Native developer with a proven track record of shipping mobile apps, with a keen eye for mobile UI/UX.
- The Mobile Web Specialist You have deep experience with mobile web development and understand the unique challenges of mobile interfaces, performance optimization, and responsive design. You're passionate about UX/UI and ready to transition your mobile expertise to React Native development.
- The Native Developer Exploring Cross-Platform You're a skilled mobile native developer (iOS/Android) who's interested in exploring React Native as a cross-platform solution. You bring valuable native platform knowledge and are open to learning TypeScript-based development.
What You Will Do:
- Collaborate closely with a team of designers, mobile and UX engineers to streamline the mobile app towards AI-first creation.
- Introduce new features that make creation on mobile easier and faster.
- Improve the quality and observability of the app.
- Proactively identify what our software creators need to make building on mobile delightful.
Required Experience:
- You can demonstrate 5+ years of professional software development experience, including:
- Experience optimizing UI rendering performance
- Experience debugging and deploying iOS or Android apps
- You are comfortable or excited to build with React/CSS and React Native.
- You are familiar with UI/UX patterns on iOS or Android
Bonus Points:
- You’ve built and shipped your own apps to the world
This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The hybrid role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Full-Time Employee Benefits Include: 💰 Competitive Salary & Equity 💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match ⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance 🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability 🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave 🚗 Commuter Benefits 📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend 🧑💻 Autonomous Work Environment 🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement 🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays 🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings ☕ In Office Amenities
Want to learn more about what we are up to?
Interviewing + Culture at Replit
To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.
This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The hybrid role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Full-Time Employee Benefits Include: 💰 Competitive Salary & Equity 💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only) ⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance 🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability 🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave 🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays 🚗 Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only) 📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend 🧑💻 Autonomous Work Environment 🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only) 🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings ☕ In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)
Want to learn more about what we are up to?
Interviewing + Culture at Replit
To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.
Why work at Replit
- Culture: Described as a place for "builders who care about craft, speed, and making things that matter." The company values "ideas first. Proof matters. Momentum wins."
- Work Style: "In person, on purpose." Replit emphasizes working from its HQ in Foster City, believing that proximity accelerates decisions and improves work quality. It operates a hybrid model with a strong in-office expectation.
- Compensation & Benefits:
- Competitive salary, equity, and performance bonus
- Health, dental, and vision insurance with HSA contributions ($2k individual / $4k family)
- 24 weeks paid birth-parent leave; 12 weeks paid bonding and family care leave
- 401K with company matching
- $1,000 annual learning & development reimbursement
- Monthly wellness stipend, commuter benefits, and in-office meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- Flexible time off and paid sick leave
- Engineering Culture: Strong emphasis on building resilient, scalable systems (Kubernetes, GCP). Roles like Staff Infrastructure Engineer and GRC Engineer indicate a mature, security-conscious engineering environment.