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Hire Mobile App Developer · San Francisco

Hire a Mobile App Developer
in San Francisco

iOS + Android from one engineer. TestFlight in three weeks.

Looking to hire a mobile app developer in San Francisco? RN seniors in San Francisco are $220–300K. We ship both stores on a single flat-price engagement — usually React Native via Expo, native when the use case calls for it.

Local senior, year 1

$359K all-in

Base + benefits + payroll tax + 90-day hire cycle

Engagement with us

$10,000+

Flat price, 3–6 weeks to TestFlight to first deploy

Start with a 30-min callSee the Mobile App Development page

Two paths for mobile app developer work

Hire local in San Francisco, or engage us

Path A · Hire local

~$359K

Year-one outlay for one senior mobile app developer

  • 60–90 day search through recruiters / inbound
  • Vesting equity, signing bonus, relocation if remote
  • One person, full-time, no flexibility on capacity
  • Probation period: 90 days of unknown output
  • If it doesn't work out: severance, recruiting cycle restarts

Path B · Engage Start Matter

From $10,000

Quoted after a 30-minute call

  • Senior engineer starts inside seven days
  • No equity, no signing bonus, no recruiting fee
  • Flexible capacity — scope up or down between phases
  • First deploy in two weeks — output you can ship to users
  • Hand off cleanly when you hire your full-time team

What we do

The work, concretely

What you'd hand to a salaried mobile app developer — we own end to end on a flat-price engagement.

  • Cross-platform RN with Expo prebuild for native modules when needed
  • Push notifications, deep links, OTA updates via Expo Updates
  • Store submission (Apple Developer + Play Console) handled end to end
  • Offline-first storage where it matters (TanStack Query persist or RxDB)
  • Crash reporting, analytics, performance instrumentation wired correctly

Stack we'd use

What we'd build with

React Native (Expo)TypeScriptTamagui / NativeWindSupabaseSentryEAS Build & Submit

FAQ

About hiring vs engaging in San Francisco

How fast can you start?

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Most engagements begin within seven days of the first call. There's no recruiter pipeline, no notice period, no relocation timeline.

React Native or native?

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RN by default — 90% of features are identical and you ship to both stores at once. Native if you have hard requirements (live activities, complex camera, low-level audio).

Is this a full-time replacement?

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No — we're a senior engineer on a flat-price engagement. For most pre-seed and seed-stage products, that ships more than a salaried hire would in the same window. When you outgrow it, we hand off cleanly to the team you hire.

Who owns the code?

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You do, from commit one. Repo in your GitHub, infra in your cloud account. When you do hire someone, they onboard onto your code, not ours.

Other roles in San Francisco

We also embed as

Mobile App Developer elsewhere

Same role, other cities

Ready to ship instead of hire?

30-minute call → flat-price quote in 24 hours → first deploy inside two weeks.

Start the callSee San Francisco overview