Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native)
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As we scale internationally, this role will lead a new React Native application andestablisha scalable development environment across iOS, Android, and our backend platform., * Establish the greenfield architecture, testing, CI/CD, and release foundations for iOS and Android.
- Agree scalable API contracts and an integration strategy with our Ruby on Rails engineers.
- Build trust across Product, Design, and Engineering by surfacing timelines, risks, trade-offs, and technical debt early.
Within 12 months, you will
- Own the mobile roadmap across multiple product verticals, from technical design to production.
- Build a maintainable cross-platform foundation for fast, sustainable delivery.
- Introduce measurable improvements in mobile quality, stability, performance, and delivery velocity.
- Shape long-term mobile/backend integration and keep technical debt visible and manageable., * Architect & Build - Define, own, and ship a greenfield React Native B2B application for iOS and Android. Set architectural standards that balance near-term delivery with long-term scalability.
- Own Delivery - Own multiple workstreams in a small team, turning product goals into technical plans and carrying them through build, release, and iteration.
- Design for the Long Term - Make pragmatic greenfield architecture decisions, balancing delivery speed with maintainability, scalability, accessibility, and technical debt.
- Partner with Backend - Work with Ruby on Rails engineers to shape API contracts, data flows, authentication, observability, and a sustainable mobile/backend boundary.
- Technical Leadership - Proactively communicate timelines, delivery confidence, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs, helping Product and Engineering make informed scope decisions.
This high-autonomy role suits an engineer comfortable defining what to build, designing the system, and delivering it-not simply implementing prescribed solutions., * React Native (TypeScript)
- React Navigation
Backend & Delivery Context
- Ruby on Rails APIs
- iOS and Android app delivery
- API contracts and mobile/backend integration
- Automated testing and CI/CD
- Mobile monitoring and performance optimisation
- App Store and Google Play release practices
- Security, accessibility, and maintainable engineering standards
You are not expected to know every toolimmediately, but you must be comfortable owning architectural decisions across React Native and its backend integration.
Requirements
- 6+ years of mobile engineering experience.
- Deep React Native and TypeScriptexpertiseacross architecture, testing, performance, and production delivery.
- Strong judgement about when React Native needs native platform capabilities or modules.
- Proven experience designing a greenfield system and shipping production iOS and Android applications.
- Experienceestablishinga development environment and technical direction from scratch.
- Comfortable explaining trade-offs between delivery speed, product needs, and maintainability.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, own multiple verticals, and move between architecture and hands-on delivery.
- Strong communicationskills, proactively surfacing delivery confidence, risks, dependencies, and technical debt.
- Experience collaborating with Ruby on Rails or similar backend teams.
- Experience in transport,logistics, or regulated industries.
- Familiarity with mobile observability, performance profiling, testing, and app-store releases.
- Experience working in B2B SaaS environments.
- Exposure to native iOS and Android development.
- 25 days holiday
- Freeflu jab for you and your family
We value
- Clarity over bureaucracy
Weoperatewith high autonomy and high accountability. People are expected to raise risks early, communicate clearly, and take responsibility for outcomes., * ScreeningCall (30 mins)
- Technical Architecture Discussion -Greenfield React Native and backend integration deep dive
- Final Culture Conversation- Leadership alignment
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