Senior Lead Mobile Engineer

Mandatory Skills: React Native, Type Script, Expo, and modern mobile architecture patterns.
Skill Last Used Experience in Years/month Hands on Exp.
Yes/No React Native Type Script Retail Exp.

Job Description: We're looking for a Senior Lead Engineer – React Native with deep experience designing and building scalable, high-performance mobile applications using React Native, Type Script, Expo, and modern mobile architecture patterns. This role will play a critical part in shaping the technical direction of our mobile platform, driving architecture decisions, optimizing performance, and delivering enterprise-grade mobile experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and oversee the daily mobile engineering operations.

• Define and drive the mobile architecture strategy aligned with business goals.

• Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance mobile applications using React Native and Type Script.

• Architect modular, reusable component systems and scalable state management solutions (Redux, Zustand, Context API, etc.).

• Design clean navigation, deep linking, and mobile routing strategies (React Navigation, Expo Router).

• Implement secure authentication flows (OAuth/OIDC, biometrics, secure storage, token lifecycle management).

• Drive native module integrations (Swift, Kotlin) for SDKs such as payments, fraud detection, analytics, push notifications, and device security.

• Optimize mobile performance (startup time, bundle size, memory usage, rendering performance, offline caching).

• Establish CI/CD pipelines for mobile (Fastlane, EAS Build, App Store Connect, Google Play Console).

• Lead app release management, versioning strategy, and store compliance.

• Ensure adherence to mobile security best practices, privacy compliance, and accessibility standards.

• Partner with backend teams to define API contracts and optimize mobile-backend interactions.

• Champion automated testing (Jest, React Native Testing Library, Detox) and code quality standards.

• Participate in architecture reviews and roadmap planning for long-term mobile platform scalability.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience.

• 6+ years of hands-on mobile development experience.

• 4+ years leading React Native applications in production environments.

• Proven experience delivering apps to both Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

• Experience working with cloud-based backends (Azure, AWS, or GCP).

• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and Dev Ops best practices.

• Strong hands-on experience building production-grade apps using React Native and Type Script.

• Deep understanding of Expo ecosystem (EAS, OTA updates, build pipelines, native configuration).

• Expertise in mobile architecture patterns (Clean Architecture, MVVM, modular architecture).

• Experience integrating native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) modules into React Native apps.

• Strong understanding of app lifecycle, memory management, threading, and performance tuning.

• Experience implementing push notifications, deep linking, analytics SDKs, and mobile security frameworks.

• Experience with API integrations (REST, Graph

QL) and handling network resiliency/offline-first design.