React Native Mobile Developer Lead

UST is searching for a React Native Mobile Developer Lead to own the architecture and delivery of our customer-facing mobile app, which powers ordering, rewards, and loyalty for guests across the country. You’ll lead a team of mobile engineers, including across time zones, set technical direction, and stay hands-on in the codebase.

You’ll work closely with product, design, backend, and store operations teams to ship features that get used during busy morning rushes.

What You’ll Do

• Lead design and implementation of a cross-platform React Native application for iOS and Android

• Write production code daily, including features, native modules, and tooling, and contribute to the team’s coding standards

• Define and maintain mobile architecture, including navigation, state management, offline behavior, and native module integration

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment processes for app store releases and phased rollouts

• Lead remote engineering teams across time zones, setting clear priorities, communicating decisions, and unblocking work asynchronously

• Mentor and grow mobile engineers through code reviews, pairing, and regular 1:1s

• Partner with product and design to translate business goals into scoped, testable technical plans

• Monitor app performance and stability, and drive improvements in startup time, crash rates, and responsiveness

• Make pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions for SDKs and third-party services, such as payments, analytics, and push notifications

• Participate in hiring, interviewing, and onboarding of engineers

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

• 4+ years of hands-on React Native experience building production applications

• 4+ years of native mobile development experience on iOS or Android

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript, including modern React patterns such as hooks and component architecture

• Proficiency in either Swift or Kotlin for native module development and debugging

• Working knowledge of state management libraries such as Redux, Zustand, or React Query

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and automating mobile build, test, and deployment processes

• Experience leading or mentoring engineers, formally as a lead or informally through senior IC work

• Ability to work in the US Mountain Time zone

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience leading remote or distributed teams

• Ability to pass a live coding assessment as part of the interview process

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing bridge code in Kotlin or Swift for React Native integrations

• Experience publishing NPM libraries

• Public GitHub or other code repositories we can review

• Experience with the React Native New Architecture (Fabric and TurboModules)

• Background in restaurant, hospitality, retail, or high-traffic consumer apps

• Experience with payment flows, loyalty programs, or real-time order tracking

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below., Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), 10 paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty. They are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as the following Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits. Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits, and participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA) as well as a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines. Benefits offerings vary in Puerto Rico.

Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.

Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) program with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).

All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws., Compensation range: $118,000.00 to $177,000.00 per year

Since 1999, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a powerful impact through transformation. Headquartered in the United States, UST is powered by technology, driven by AI, inspired by people, and led by our purpose, we partner with our clients from design to operation. Our AI-driven digital solutions, proprietary platforms, engineering, R&D, products, and innovation ecosystem turn core challenges into impactful, disruptive business outcomes. With deep industry knowledge and a future-ready mindset, we infuse expertise, innovation, and agility into our clients’ organizations-delivering measurable value and positive lasting change for them, their customers, and communities around the world. Together, with 30,000+ employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact-touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at ., UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact-touching billions of lives in the process.