Mobile Developer Lead

Location: Australia

Workplace: remote

Employment Type: full

Description

Reporting to the Lead Development Engineer and working within an experienced and collaborative development team, you will be responsible for building performant, scalable, and sustainable mobile application architecture and software. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will spend the majority of your time actively coding and developing, while also providing
technical leadership and mentorship to the team.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with the technology team in the adoption and maintenance of modern (agile) software engineering practices.
• Building and integrating dynamic, responsive, and high-quality mobile interfaces using React Native and related technologies.
• Supporting critical technology incidents as needed, including debugging and resolving mobile issues using tools like Sentry, Flipper, or React Native Debugger.
• Contributing to initiatives in technology architecture, scalability, security, and performance.
• Leading and executing React Native upgrades, ensuring smooth version migrations, stability, and dependency compatibility.
• Delivering high-quality hands-on engineering work aligned with the company's commercial objectives.
• Mentoring other mobile engineers and team members Working within defined project management guidelines and security best
  practices.
• Contributing technical inputs to the product team and roadmap discussions.

Be the champion in delivering scalable, robust, commercially viable technology outcomes for the company, and become a cultural change agent within the technology group to focus on engineering best-in-breed, commercially viable technology outcomes for the business.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in mobile development using React Native.
• Proven track record of leading mobile development initiatives while maintaining a strong hands-on coding presence.
• Strong experience with React Native and its ecosystem React Navigation, Redux / React Query, TanStack Query, etc.).
• Proficient in JavaScript ES6 and TypeScript.
• Experience building performant, responsive, and cross-platform (iOS/Android) applications.
• Familiarity with testing tools and frameworks such as Jest, React Native, Testing Library, Detox, or similar.
• Good understanding of RESTful APIs and integration with backend services.
• Strong experience identifying performance bottlenecks and optimizing mobile applications at scale.
• Experience working in teams of 3 or more developers, with a track record of elevating team capabilities
• Good understanding of pair programming and code reviews, with experience leading technical code review sessions.
• Proven experience upgrading React Native versions and managing complex dependency changes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., CircleCI, Fastlane).
• Worked in Agile environments Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience with native (iOS/Android) development is a plus.
• Ability to balance hands-on development work with technical leadership and mentorship responsibilities

Your Attributes

• Confident and autonomous, with the ability to make technical decisions and guide implementation strategies
• You write performant, scalable, efficient code and can coach others to do the same
• You take pride in your work and inspire the same standard in your team
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and actively lead architectural and team discussions
• You aren't afraid of making and learning from mistakes, and create a safe environment for others to do the same
• You share and communicate your knowledge with the team through code reviews, pair programming sessions, and technical mentorship
• You lead by example, staying deeply involved in code while providing technical direction
• Some knowledge or interest in other technologies we use, such as Vue.js, Serverless, Node.js, and Ruby on Rails