Lead Mobile Engineer - React Native

Role Summary

Senior mobile engineering specialist with extensive experience designing, developing, modernising, and supporting large-scale iOS, Android, and React Native applications. Responsible for end-to-end mobile solution delivery, architecture, engineering standards, CI/CD implementation, code quality, application security, and mentoring development teams. Possesses strong expertise in both native mobile development and cross-platform mobile engineering, with experience delivering solutions across financial services, healthcare, government, telecommunications, and digital product organisations. 

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable mobile applications using React Native, iOS, and Android technologies.
  
• Lead development teams through architecture, design reviews, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
  
• Deliver end-to-end mobile application lifecycle management including development, testing, deployment, and production support.
  
• Drive mobile modernisation initiatives, framework upgrades, and platform enhancements.
  
• Implement secure mobile engineering practices including application hardening, SSL pinning, secure authentication, and compliance controls.
  
• Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated mobile release processes.
  
• Integrate mobile applications with REST APIs, backend services, authentication platforms, and third-party SDKs.
  
• Conduct code reviews, mentor developers, and promote engineering quality and delivery excellence.
  
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, business stakeholders, and delivery teams in Agile environments. 
  

Technical Expertise

Mobile Technologies

• React Native
  
• iOS (Swift, Objective-C)
  
• Android (Java, Kotlin)
  
• TypeScript
  
• JavaScript 
  

Architecture & Engineering

• Mobile architecture and design patterns
  
• REST/JSON API integration
  
• SOLID principles
  
• Modular architecture
  
• State management
  
• Code quality and review practices
  
• Performance optimisation
  
• Agile delivery models 
  

DevOps & Release Management

• Azure DevOps CI/CD
  
• GitHub Actions
  
• App Store deployment
  
• Google Play deployment
  
• TestFlight
  

Release management and automation