About the role
Responsibilities:
- You'll build the mobile brain of Dhruva: the layer that decides whether a user in rural Rajasthan gets an answer in 500ms or 5 seconds, and whether the app stays reliable while Dhruva negotiates for 10,000 users simultaneously.
- Architect a transport-agnostic real-time messaging layer (WebSocket, HTTP polling, push) with zero UI-layer churn as transports change.
- Build the offline-first local data layer sync, conflict resolution, and schema migrations that scale as Dhruva's capabilities grow.
- Build extensible rendering infra for AI-native UI: streaming responses, polymorphic message types, inline actionable widgets.
- Handle the unglamorous but critical mobile edge cases: backgrounding, token refresh, network loss recovery.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of React Native, with production apps shipped to both app stores.
- Strong WebSocket experience: connection lifecycle, reconnection, event-driven handling.
- SQLite or WatermelonDB in production, including schema migrations and offline-first patterns.
- TypeScript fluency: strict types from backend contracts through the data layer.
- Android performance chops: FlatList tuning, Hermes, memory profiling.
- Redux (or equivalent) for concurrent async state without race conditions.