Dedicated React Native Engineers
Hire React Native Developers
React Native engineers who have actually shipped to both stores.
Writing a React Native screen is easy. Getting through App Store review, background location, and a crash-free release is where experience shows.
Quick Answer
Updated August 22, 2026
What does it cost to hire a React Native developer?
A senior React Native developer from India costs $33–$45 per hour, roughly ₹3.6–5 lakh per month full time; mid-level runs $22–$32 per hour. The reason to pay for seniority in mobile is release risk — a store rejection or a crash-looping release costs you days you cannot buy back, and those are exactly the problems that come from inexperience rather than from the framework.
Senior hourly rate
$33 – $45
Apps shipped
iOS and Android, both stores
Time to start
5 – 10 working days
Best for
- Products that need iOS and Android from one codebase and one budget
- Apps with meaningful backend integration rather than pure UI
- Teams already invested in React on the web
Not best for
- Games and heavy 3D or AR — go native or use a game engine
- Apps whose entire value is a platform-specific native capability
- Single-platform products where native tooling is simply better
Rate Card
What does it cost to hire react native developers?
Mobile rates carry a small premium over web at the senior band because release management, store review, and device-specific debugging are real work that web engineers never have to do.
| Level | Experience | Monthly (INR) | Hourly (USD) | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 3–5 years | ₹2,20,000 – ₹3,20,000 | $22 – $32 | Screens, navigation, and API wiring against an agreed design |
| Senior | 5–8 years | ₹3,60,000 – ₹5,00,000 | $33 – $45 | Release ownership, native modules, store submission, crash triage |
| Lead / architect | 8+ years | ₹5,00,000 – ₹6,50,000 | $45 – $60 | Multi-app architecture, CI/CD for mobile, performance budgets |
Rates are for dedicated engagements with at least four hours of daily overlap with your working hours. Longer commitments reduce the rate; more overlap increases it.
Capability
What our react native developers actually do
- Navigation architecture that survives deep links and state restoration
- Native module integration when JavaScript alone will not do it
- Background geolocation, push notifications, and permission flows on both platforms
- Offline-first data with sync and conflict handling
- Store submission — signing, provisioning, review responses, phased rollout
- Crash triage and performance profiling on real low-end devices
Working stack
We staff for the stack you already run wherever we can. Where we think a different choice would serve you better, we will say so once — with the reasoning — and then work in yours.
Common Engagements
What teams usually hire React Native engineers for
Driver and delivery apps
Background location, dispatch over sockets, and battery behaviour that does not get the app killed by the OS.
Commerce apps
Catalogue, cart, payments, and push-driven retention shipped to both stores from a shared codebase.
Healthcare and consultation apps
Video consultations over WebRTC, document upload, and the privacy handling that comes with medical data.
Rescuing a stalled app
Inheriting a half-finished React Native project, getting it through store review, and shipping the first real release.
Vetting
How we decide who is good enough to place
Vetting is the entire value of hiring through an agency rather than a marketplace. If we are not rejecting most applicants, we are not doing the job you are paying for.
Step 1
Technical interview
A senior engineer from our team runs the interview. Not a recruiter with a checklist, and not an automated coding test.
Step 2
Practical exercise
A task close to the work you are actually hiring for, reviewed the way we would review a pull request.
Step 3
Reference and delivery check
We ask what they shipped recently, who reviewed it, and what went wrong on it. The last question is the useful one.
Step 4
Fit call with you
You speak to the engineer before committing. If the fit is wrong at that point, nothing has been signed.
Comparison
React Native vs hiring separate iOS and Android teams
Cross-platform is usually the right call for product apps, and usually the wrong call for hardware-heavy ones. Here is where the line falls.
With SoftwareCrafting
- One codebase, one team, roughly one budget instead of two
- Shared business logic, so a bug is fixed once rather than twice
- Native modules written when a platform capability genuinely needs them
- Store submission and release management included, not billed separately
Typical alternative
- Two teams, two codebases, two sets of bugs to reproduce
- Feature parity drifting apart release by release
- Roughly double the engineering cost for the same product surface
- Coordination overhead between platform teams on every feature
Engagement Models
Four ways to work with us, and when each one fits
Dedicated seat
One engineer working full time inside your team, your repo, and your process. Monthly rolling, two weeks notice.
Ongoing roadmap work with no defined end date
Part-time seat
From roughly 20 hours a week. Below that, context reloading eats most of the value, and we will say so.
Specialist input alongside an existing team
Fixed-scope project
A defined deliverable at an agreed price. Only where scope is genuinely clear enough to fix without a change-request cycle.
Migrations, audits, and well-specified builds
Delivery pod
Three to four people including QA and a named delivery owner accountable for the sprint outcome.
Whole product areas you want owned end to end
What you get either way
- You interview the engineer before anything is signed
- Replacement at our cost if the fit is wrong in the first two weeks
- IP assignment and NDA signed before technical access is granted
- Code committed to your repository, under your organisation, from day one
- Monthly rolling contract — two weeks notice, no annual lock-in
Quick Brief
Start the conversation here
Tell us the role, the stack, and when you need someone. We will come back with availability and a rate.
Your Name
Work Email
What do you need help with?
Proof
Products we have shipped with React Native
Driftload — driver app
React Native driver app with background geolocation and Socket.io dispatch updates.
Prime Cares — patient app
React Native app with WebRTC consultations, REST APIs, and Firebase messaging.
MedCare — healthcare mobile app
React Native and TypeScript app on an Express and MongoDB backend.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask before hiring React Native engineers
How much does it cost to hire a React Native developer in India?
Mid-level developers cost $22–$32 per hour and seniors $33–$45 per hour, which is about ₹2.2–3.2 lakh and ₹3.6–5 lakh per month respectively on a full-time dedicated engagement.
Can one React Native developer handle both iOS and Android?
For most product apps, yes — that is the point of the framework. Where you need a second pair of hands is platform-specific native work, and heavy release cycles where one person becomes a bottleneck on submissions.
Do you handle App Store and Play Store submission?
Yes, including signing, provisioning profiles, store listings, and responding to review rejections. We have taken apps through both stores repeatedly, including the rejections nobody advertises.
Is React Native still a good choice in 2026?
For product apps with substantial shared business logic, yes. The new architecture has closed most of the historic performance gap. For games, heavy AR, or apps whose core value is a platform-specific capability, native or a game engine is still the right answer and we will say so.
Can you take over an existing React Native app?
Yes. Roughly half our mobile work is inherited codebases. We start with a short audit — dependency health, build reproducibility, crash rate — and give you a written picture before committing to a delivery plan.
Do you build with Expo or bare React Native?
Both. Expo for apps that fit inside its capabilities, because it removes a lot of build pain. Bare React Native when the app needs native modules Expo does not cover. We make that call early, since switching later is expensive.
How do you test on real devices?
We keep a spread of physical Android devices, including deliberately low-end ones, plus iOS hardware. Simulator-only testing misses exactly the problems that generate one-star reviews.
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