Lead React Native Developer

Required Qualifications & Experience
React Native & JavaScript Ecosystem
Minimum 10 years of mobile development experience, with at least 5 years dedicated to React Native in production environments. Minimum 5 years of formal team lead or staff engineer experience with direct mentoring responsibility for mid-senior engineers.
Demonstrable experience leading a team through a significant technology transition (platform migration, framework adoption, or language re-platforming).
Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript; strong understanding of JavaScript runtime behaviour, event loop, and async patterns.
Deep knowledge of React Native internals, proven experience with state management, mastery of React Navigation and complex nested navigation architectures.
Proficiency with react-native-cli, managed and bare workflows; ability to evaluate trade-offs and choose appropriately per project.
Solid understanding of native iOS development (Swift, Objective-C, UIKit, SwiftUI) sufficient to author and debug React Native native modules and bridges.
Solid understanding of native Android development (Kotlin, Java, Jetpack) sufficient to author and debug React Native native modules and bridges.
Ability to read and navigate existing native codebases for accurate migration planning and risk assessment.
Demonstrated track record of publishing multiple mobile applications to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store - Include links or names of published apps in your application.
Experience writing and maintaining Jest unit tests, React Native Testing Library integration tests, and Detox E2E tests.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; ability to produce clear technical documentation, ADRs, and onboarding guides.
Familiarity with building management, facility management, or smart building domain applications is a plus. Prior experience in a SaaS product company, especially multi-tenant mobile application contexts is also a plus.
Core Competencies
Technical Strengths
Cross-platform architectural thinking
Performance-first development mindset
Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills
Security-aware: token storage, certificate pinning, data encryption at rest
Systematic approach to code quality and testing
Up-to-date with React Native New Architecture evolution
Leadership & People
Patient and structured mentoring style
Leads by example - maintains hands-on coding contributions
Clear communicator across engineering, product, and design
Creates psychological safety for junior developers to learn and fail fast
Drives accountability through enablement, not micromanagement
Gives and receives constructive feedback effectively