Lead React Native Engineer

Position: Staff/Lead React Native Engineer
Location: Greater London

## About the role

We’re looking for a Staff/Lead React Native Engineer to join our cross-functional team building new product experiences in our established Zable App, used by over 500,000 customers on iOS and Android.

Over the next year we have big plans for our app. New products and bringing Zable to a new audience. We are scaling our dev team up to match our ambition and we’re looking for talented people to help us experiment and succeed in these new areas.

Alongside feature work we also put a big focus on improving performance, reducing tech debt, and improving scalability. Our ideal engineer is detail focused and resourceful, and keen to understand the bigger picture outside of their product team, contributing to wider engineering and business initiatives that help us scale our UK and US based products as we continue to grow.
** Our tech stack
**** Mobile Apps
*** Typescript, React Native, Expo, EAS, Graph

QL, Relay, Zustand, Jest, React Testing Library, Maestro
** Web
* ** Typescript, React, NextJS, Redux Toolkit, SCSS, React Testing Library, Cypress
** Backend / Infrastructure
*** PHP 8 (Symfony), Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Rabbit

MQ, Docker, Kubernetes
** Tooling
* ** Github, Jira & Confluence, for our code & product management processes
* Bugsnag, Datadog & Sentry for debugging and reporting
* Figma & Storybook, for our design process

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** What we're looking for
*** You have experience working with product owners to break down business requirements into deliverable tasks and estimate the complexity of their implementation. You can quickly identify the difficulties of implementing a feature from an initial design wireframe or outline spec and work together to propose alternative approaches where appropriate
* You are passionate about building high-performing teams. You organise work streams in conjunction with the product owner, and look for optimisations that will improve team performance and happiness, while driving individual accountability for delivery
* You have experience mentoring and supporting other engineers, alongside engineering managers, working to encourage their personal and professional growth, and enabling them to succeed.
* You have an expert understanding of modern Java script with Typescript
* You have experience leading cross-platform mobile development using React Native
* You have a strong understanding of the different needs of mobile users across a variety of platforms and devices
* You’re comfortable owning and managing the full spectrum of iOS & Android application requirements, such as provisioning, certificate management, automated deployment, and app store release processes
* You set the standard for automated testing in your team, and take a pragmatic approach to implementing and improving the various phases of the testing pyramid
* You can quickly identify and assess technical debt and are a vocal advocate for prioritising code improvements alongside feature work when the opportunity arises
* You understand the importance of catering to users with accessibility needs, and are familiar with the approaches and tooling required to ensure accessibility guidelines and best practices are adhered to.
** What would make you stand out
*** You’ve lead teams which have built, or worked on, products that have scaled from zero users to tens or hundreds of thousands (or more), and can apply what you learnt in new contexts
* You’ve used Graph

QL in a production environment
* You’ve had experience in scaling React Native to multiple teams
* You’ve built and launched new products and grown the audience
* You have in-depth experience of mobile performance best practices and debugging
* You’ve employed staged rollouts and multivariate testing approaches to release new features and test hypotheses
* You have experience of UI or UX design. You feel at ease discussing approaches with product designers, and are happy to get involved in making design decisions where required
** Interview process
*** A
** quick video call
** with a member of our
** talent team
** to learn more about you
* A
** 30-minute video call
** with the
** hiring manager
** to…