Senior React Native Developer

On behalf of one of our clients - a well-established, fast-growing fintech scale-up - Xcede is hiring two Senior React Native Developers. You’ll join a cross-functional product team where your work has real, visible impact, designing, building, and maintaining mobile applications with a strong focus on Android and delivering high-quality, scalable mobile experiences.

You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and business stakeholders, share your technical expertise with peers, and help raise the bar for code quality and engineering excellence. If you enjoy clean architecture, thoughtful problem-solving, and building software that truly matters, this is the role for you.

What you can expect

• Build and evolve mobile solutions - design, develop, and maintain high-quality React Native applications.
• Own architecture and technical decisions - understand platform specifics, runtime behaviour, dependencies, and deployment pipelines to ensure maintainable, efficient, and scalable mobile solutions.
• Deliver high-quality code - write clean, readable, well-documented code that follows industry standards and mobile best practices, supported by robust automated testing.
• Work close to the business - develop a strong understanding of customer needs and business context, translating real-world problems into effective mobile solutions.
• Drive execution and predictability - estimate technical solutions and component-level requirements accurately, contributing to reliable delivery and team throughput.
• Collaborate and share knowledge - actively participate in code reviews, design discussions, and cross-team collaboration while promoting best practices and shared ownership.
• Take ownership and grow others - lead challenging initiatives, mentor team members, and contribute to improving engineering processes and technical standards.
• Continuously improve - take on larger initiatives over time, enhancing both the product and the way the team builds software.

• Strong mobile engineering foundation - solid experience with React Native and a strong understanding of Android development using Java and/or Kotlin, enabling quick adaptation to the team’s stack and patterns.
• Production experience - proven track record of building and shipping mobile applications in production environments, with deep knowledge of Android platform specifics and mobile UI/UX best practices.
• API and data integration skills - experience integrating REST APIs and managing data within mobile applications.
• Testing mindset - good understanding of mobile testing strategies including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, with a focus on reliable, automated test coverage.
• Cloud and DevOps awareness - basic familiarity with cloud platforms, ideally AWS, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Product-oriented thinking - you care about delivering meaningful features that create value for users and improve the overall mobile experience.
• Collaborative communication style - strong communication skills and enjoyment working within cross-functional teams, contributing positively to engineering culture.
• Security and compliance awareness - understanding of mobile security best practices and data protection requirements.
• Nice to have - advanced experience with native Android development, native module integration, performance optimisation, or offline-first architectures.
• Language skills - fluent in written and spoken English.

• Flexibility - family-friendly working hours and a generous home office policy.
• Ergonomic work environment - ergonomic workstations on office days.
• Autonomy - short decision-making paths and space to take on responsibility.
• Growth - an annual development budget alongside ongoing opportunities for growth.
• Team spirit - regular team events and socials.
• Mobility support - choice of preferred mobility option (e.g. train ticket or parking).
• Fitness perks - discounted membership at a partner gym network, or access to an in-house fitness room.
• Pension support - subsidies for company pension plans.
• Tailored benefits - benefits adapted to your personal life situation.

Equal opportunities and diversity are especially important to our client. Applications are welcomed from mothers, fathers, people with disabilities, and people from the LGBTQIA+ community. Please let us know if you’d like a gender-neutral pronoun used, need barrier-free office access, or would like more time allowed for the application process.

Interested? Get in touch with Matthew Rees-Davis at Xcede to find out more.