Mobile Engineer

We're building a first of its kind developer platform that can be used to learn and practice programming, build and deploy applications, and share and discuss with a community of peers. We realize this is an ambitious plan, but we think it's high time someone built this. There is no good reason for the insane fragmentation in programming tools today -- someone learning to code needs to learn at least ten disjointed tools and platforms to do anything interesting with programming.

We're on a mission to make programming more accessible by building the best, simplest, and fastest coding environment. Replit is a place to not only learn and practice programming but also to collaborate and ship applications.

At Replit, we want to turn the smartphone from a device primarily for mindless consumption into a tool for stimulating creation. We’re building a brand new native mobile app that gives people computing superpowers, from wherever they are in the world. Our app will empower learners, casual explorers and experienced programmers alike. We’re looking for a generalist mobile engineer to join our remote team and help us bring our app to the world.

If you have shipped apps for Android or iOS (or both!) and can reach into other parts of the tech stack, we want to hear from you! In this role, you will shape our first native mobile app from the ground up. To make programming on small touchscreens fast & fun, and ultimately delightful, we will need to rethink how programs should be written and composed, and shared with others. 

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.

Ready to build the future of programming?

Most of our time is spent building two core areas of our technology -- the IDE and the container infrastructure. We created the world's fastest and first server-rendered IDE. The IDE has a small functional core -- borrowing ideas from Redux -- everything is a plugin. This architecture allows us to build an adaptable IDE where it starts very simple and grows with the user as they learn more and require more features -- this is crucial for new programmers.

As for our infrastructure, we're building a new kind of computing platform: it's Serverless in that users don't have to care about the underlying resources, but it's not Serverless in that it's stateful. This way it's interactive, and since we're focused on newcomers, it's a much more natural programming model. We're also building a filesystem abstraction that allows your working directory to travel with your container between development and production and as it goes offline and online -- a persistent and versioned working directory.