Borrowell is hiring a Front End Platform Developer to join our Frontend Platform team. In this role, you will build foundational components that serve as a force multiplier for our entire engineering organization, enabling product teams to move quickly and safely. You'll own the architecture of our universal codebase (Web + Mobile), maintain our Expo & Monorepo infrastructure, and design tools that accelerate development.
What You'll Do
- Optimize our Monorepo setup to ensure seamless code sharing between React (Web) and React Native (Mobile), reducing duplication and friction.
- Serve as a technical consultant to product teams, defining the 'Golden Path' for new features and raising the bar on code quality.
- Maintain and enhance the mobile application using React Native, ensuring reliability and release health.
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years of professional experience building applications in React or React Native.
- Strong React fundamentals (hooks, state management, component patterns).
- TypeScript experience in production code.
- Experience with state management (React Context, React Query, or similar).
- Understanding of RESTful APIs and async data fetching patterns.
- Solid Git and PR workflow experience.
- Comfort working in a monorepo or multi‑app environment.
- Experience in designing and building cross-platform shared UI components across web and mobile.
- Familiarity with mobile CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and app store submission processes.
Nice to Have
- Fullstack experience in backend technologies and database systems.
- Familiarity with micro‑frontend architectures.
- Experience managing dependencies and shared logic in a Monorepo environment.
- Expo development and OTA update workflow.
- Exposure to AI coding tools such as Cursor and Claude Code.
- Experience working in fast‑paced and high‑growth startups.
Technical Stack
- React
- React Native
- TypeScript
- Expo
- Monorepo
- RESTful APIs
- Git
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Frontend Platform team, collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and QA teams across the company.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $80,000 – $130,000 CAD.
- Comprehensive Health Benefits - medical, dental, vision, and paramedical health benefits for you and your family, with extra yearly coverage for psychotherapists and massage therapists.
- Additional Health Benefits - virtual benefit offering that allows you to connect 24/7 with nurses, doctors, and mental health professionals.
- Maternity & Parental Leave Top-up.
- WFH Reimbursement - gear shipped to you and reimbursement for additional items.
- Employee Development Benefit - annual reimbursements on payments to help your learning.
- Givewell Benefit - 1 paid volunteer day a year.
- Flexibility - flexible working hours and a flexible vacation policy.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position. Candidates must be located in Canada.
Borrowell encourages applications from candidates with differing abilities. Please let us know if you require accommodation at any stage in the selection process.
