diff --git a/packages/react-native-session-replay/android/build.gradle b/packages/react-native-session-replay/android/build.gradle
index 8b74366d1..7d528163d 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-session-replay/android/build.gradle
+++ b/packages/react-native-session-replay/android/build.gradle
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import java.nio.file.Paths
 import org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompile
 
 buildscript {
@@ -35,6 +36,29 @@ apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
 apply plugin: 'org.jlleitschuh.gradle.ktlint'
 apply plugin: "io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt"
 
+/**
+ * Finds the path of the installed npm package with the given name using Node's
+ * module resolution algorithm, which searches "node_modules" directories up to
+ * the file system root.
+ * This enables us to handle monorepos without requiring the node executable.
+ *
+ * The search begins at the given base directory (a File object). The returned
+ * path is a string.
+ */
+static def findNodeModulePath(baseDir, packageName) {
+    def basePath = baseDir.toPath().normalize()
+    // Node's module resolution algorithm searches up to the root directory,
+    // after which the base path will be null
+    while (basePath) {
+        def candidatePath = Paths.get(basePath.toString(), "node_modules", packageName)
+        if (candidatePath.toFile().exists()) {
+            return candidatePath.toString()
+        }
+        basePath = basePath.getParent()
+    }
+    return null
+}
+
 def resolveReactNativeDirectory() {
   def reactNativeLocation = rootProject.hasProperty("reactNativeDir") ? rootProject.getProperty("reactNativeDir") : null
 
@@ -42,24 +66,10 @@ def resolveReactNativeDirectory() {
     return file(reactNativeLocation)
   }
 
-  try {
-    // Resolve React Native location with Node
-    // This will make sure that we get installation location correctly in monorepos
-    def reactNativePackageJsonPathStdout = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
+  def reactNativePath = findNodeModulePath(projectDir, "react-native")
 
-    exec {
-      commandLine("node", "-p", "require.resolve('react-native/package.json')")
-      ignoreExitValue true
-      standardOutput = reactNativePackageJsonPathStdout
-    }
-
-    def reactNativeFromProjectNodeModules = file(reactNativePackageJsonPathStdout.toString().trim()).getParentFile();
-
-    if (reactNativeFromProjectNodeModules.exists()) {
-      return reactNativeFromProjectNodeModules
-    }
-  } catch (e) {
-    // Ignore
+  if (reactNativePath != null) {
+    return file(reactNativePath)
   }
 
   throw new Exception(