Lead Engineer – React Native

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 6–10 years

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead React Native Engineer with 6+ years of experience in mobile application development to act as the technical owner of a business‑critical mobile platform. This is an individual contributor role with no direct people management, responsible for driving mobile architecture, reliability, and technical excellence while mentoring engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

Own the architecture, design, and technical decision‑making for scalable, secure, and maintainable React Native mobile applications, enforcing engineering standards and best practices.
Provide technical leadership across the mobile team through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship, without direct people management.
Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, QA, DevOps, and backend teams to deliver high‑quality mobile solutions.
Architect reusable and modular mobile solutions to support long‑term scalability and platform evolution.
Lead integration with backend services including REST APIs, GraphQL, Firebase, analytics platforms, and third‑party SDKs.
Design and implement native modules and platform‑specific optimizations using Kotlin and Swift.
Own production reliability, observability, and mobile health metrics, including incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement.
Drive mobile CI/CD, automated builds, release pipelines, and deployment strategies across environments.
Participate in sprint planning, estimation, roadmap discussions, and technical strategy planning.
Evaluate and adopt new tools, frameworks, and best practices to continuously improve mobile engineering excellence.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

6+ years of software engineering experience with extensive mobile application development experience
Strong expertise in React Native, JavaScript/TypeScript, state management, navigation, modular architecture, and React Native's New Architecture
Deep understanding of mobile performance optimization, debugging, scalability, security, and observability
Expertise in integrating REST APIs, GraphQL, Firebase, and third‑party services
Strong experience with native Android/iOS development using Kotlin and Swift
Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, automation, and deployment strategies
Proven ability to lead & mentor engineers, and collaborate effectively within Agile/Scrum teams

Nice-to-Have Skills:

Experience with monorepo or modular mobile architectures (e.g., Nx, Turborepo).
Familiarity with mobile performance monitoring, analytics, and observability tools.
Exposure to cloud platforms and backend systems supporting mobile applications.
Experience with automated mobile testing frameworks such as Jest, Detox, or Appium.
Experience supporting large‑scale mobile applications in production environments.

Lead Engineer - Mobile