Native Developer - Mumbai

Our Mission · Fuel customer growth through meaningful, intelligent, and safe user-to-user (and now, user-to-agent) engagement. · CometChat Overview · CometChat is a full-stack conversational platform built to unify every layer of interaction — bringing together real-time conversa ...

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Our Mission

Fuel customer growth through meaningful, intelligent, and safe user-to-user (and now, user-to-agent) engagement.

CometChat Overview

CometChat is a full-stack conversational platform built to unify every layer of interaction — bringing together real-time conversations (chat, messaging, voice, and video), AI Agents, moderation, notifications, and analytics in one modular, developer-first solution.

Our company has seen rapid growth, thanks to several market validations — including our participation in Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2019, followed by investments from experienced investors such as iSeed Ventures, Range Ventures, Silicon Badia, and Matchstick Ventures. CometChat raised a Series A round from Signal Peak Ventures, bringing our total funding to $16M.

We believe the interface of the future is conversation — not clicks. Every app will soon have an AI layer that's as native as text messaging today. That's why we're building the infrastructure for the world's AI-powered conversations — from human-to-human, to human-to-agent, to multi-party collaboration with AI in the mix.

From AI onboarding assistants that get users productive in minutes, to copilots that perform complex workflows in-app, to intelligent moderators that protect and guide communities in real time — our AI Agent platform makes it all possible.

With CometChat's ready-to-use UI kits, powerful SDKs, and our Full Stack AI Agent Platform, product teams across startups and enterprises can launch safe, scalable, and smart in-app interactions faster than ever.

Why Join Us Now

We're at the tipping point where AI becomes a native part of every conversation. At CometChat, you'll help shape a future where users can talk to their apps as naturally as to a friend — where agents think, reason, act, and collaborate with humans in real time.

You won't just be joining a product team — you'll be building the standard for AI interaction layers: agent-aware UI, intelligent guardrails, rich actions libraries, and multi-party collaboration between people and AI.

If you want to help define how the next billion users will communicate — and push the boundaries of what's possible in real-time, AI-powered engagement — we'd love to work with you.

What we mean by AI-native

AI-native here means you build with agents by default. We expect 100% of the code to be generated via agentic tools (Cursor, Claude Code, and similar), while you own everything that actually matters: problem framing, architecture, tradeoffs, review quality, tests, performance, and security. This is not "vibe coding." The code is generated. The thinking is yours. You should be great at steering agents, validating output, catching subtle issues early, and debugging code you did not manually write.

Why AI-native

Software development is changing permanently, and we are leaning all the way in. You will work in a team that ships fast with agents, where your leverage comes from judgment and systems thinking rather than typing speed. You will get access to whatever AI tools you need (Cursor, Claude Code, or anything else that makes you effective), and the freedom to use them aggressively. If you want to operate at the edge of how modern engineering gets done and level up your output, this role is built for that.

Join us to build where AI meets human connection.

Work Location

In our Mumbai (Chembur), India Office.

Primary responsibility would be:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance React Native applications for Android and iOS.
• Architect scalable and reusable components, ensuring best practices and coding standards.
• Mentor and guide junior developers, conduct code reviews, and support team skill development.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Backend, and QA teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Own end-to-end feature development, from requirement analysis to deployment and post-release support.
• Optimize application performance, stability, and responsiveness.
• Handle app releases, versioning, and CI/CD processes for mobile platforms.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across the mobile stack.
• Contribute to technical decision-making, architecture discussions, and process improvements.

Prioritized Experiences and Capabilities:

• 4–6 years of hands-on experience in mobile application development, with significant experience in React Native
• Leverage AI-native development workflows, including agentic IDEs and coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code), to accelerate delivery while maintaining code quality, security, and engineering standards.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), , and React Native core concepts.
• Experience with state management solutions such as Redux, Context API, or similar.
• Proficiency with React Native CLI and mobile build tools such as Gradle, Xcode, and Git.
• Solid knowledge of native Android (Java/Kotlin) and iOS (Swift/Objective-C) fundamentals, including bridging native modules in React Native.
• Experience implementing responsive and adaptive mobile UI designs.
• Strong problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Prior experience leading or mentoring developers or acting as a technical point of contact.

Good to Have

• Experience using TypeScript in production applications.
• Prior experience with Expo or similar React Native build frameworks.
• Familiarity with Hermes and performance optimization techniques.
• Experience writing unit tests, integration tests, and test cases for mobile applications.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs, real-time technologies (e.g., WebSockets), and mobile networking.
• Exposure to mobile UI/UX best practices; a portfolio of mobile apps or UI work is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated mobile deployments.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Here are the values that act as a guardrail of our execution culture:

Go above and beyond for the customer: We are obsessed with ensuring every customer is taken care of, no matter how big or small they are. We truly believe their problems are our problems, and will stop at next to nothing to see them succeed.

Be relentless: Never stop innovating. Be relentless in trying new things, and improving our product. Challenge the status quo, embrace learning curves, and don't be afraid to fail. Focus on the outcome and everything else will fall into place.

Be curious: Practice empathy. Anticipate customer needs, and solve them before they get there. If you don't understand something, ask questions and learn.

Have fun: Laugh. Be positive and kind. Make people feel good. Life is too short to not spend time doing what you love with folks you enjoy being around.

Interview Process

Our goal is to make sure you have the chance to get to know CometChat as we learn more about you. Through a series of conversations with CometChat's founders and key stakeholders, we'll want to learn more about your strategic and functional expertise, and your passion. We hope that you'll bring questions and ideas to each conversation and suggest ways that we can get to know you and your capabilities better.