Mobile Engineer (React Native, Expo, iOS, Consumer)
Summary
Build and refine a consumer travel app in React Native/Expo, focusing on native-like polish and user delight while collaborating closely with founders and designers.
About Yaay
We're building the taste layer for the physical world: the app that knows what you actually love and turns it into places to go.
Today: See it. Save it. Do it.
Spot a place on social, save it in one tap, and our AI finds the exact spot, pins it to your map, and helps you plan and book it.
Where we're going
The app you open to go out in your own city with your friends, that inspires and pushes you into the world, and that truly feels social.
Our product philosophy
AI is the engine, not the show. We use it heavily, but users don't need to know or care. It's hidden and helpful, never flashy for its own sake.
We kill choice overload. People are drowning in options. We get them to the right one while feeling confident they're not missing something better.
Complex inside, dead simple outside. Features can be intricate behind the scenes, but should always feel effortless to use.
Convention over configuration. The common case is the happy path, with an escape hatch for when you need more control.
Validate, but trust the vision. We test product decisions with real signals, and we hold our nerve on the long-term direction we believe in.
About the role
Take our React Native / Expo app to the next level and own the craft of how it feels in people's hands
Work closely with the founders and designer in a flat, autonomous team, reporting to Christian (CTO)
Remote-friendly (within UTC−3 to UTC+5 for 4-5 hour overlap with Denmark), with our home base in the Copenhagen city-center office. If you’re in Denmark we do require you to be in Copenhagen
What you'll do
Ship a polished, native-feeling app and sweat the details: animation, haptics, the small touches that make it delightful
Turn a vague idea or a napkin sketch into a real, shipped feature
Explore different routes to a feature while keeping focus on getting it into users' hands
Put yourself in the user's shoes on every decision
What we're looking for
Extensive React Native experience and a background building native mobile apps
A feel for polish: you know where a little animation or haptic makes the difference
Comfortable working autonomously from loose direction, not a fully scoped spec
A real passion for travel, and an understanding that everyone travels differently
Consumer app experience is a big plus, as is Swift/Objective-C or Kotlin/Java (nice to have, not required)
How we work
Engineering here is creative work. Our process is exploratory, and finding the best solution is part of building it
We move from idea to shipped feature without waiting for everything to be fully designed first
Why Yaay
An early, pivotal seat at an ambitious startup taking on travel and leisure, a space that touches almost everyone
Real autonomy inside a flat, joyful team
Room to grow with the company as it scales
A note on fit: We keep a relaxed hierarchy and high expectations at the same time. If you're excited to push hard and help make Yaay a success, you'll fit right in. If you're after a calm nine-to-five, this probably isn't the one.
