POSITION INFORMATION
Position Title: Tech Lead Mobile (React Native)
Experience: 7+ years
Location:Bangalore/Remote
POSITION SUMMARY AND PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Position Summary :
The role will own the mobile application technology roadmap, architecture governance, vendor collaboration, platform stability, release management and long-term maintainability of the organization's mobile applications. The individual will also play a key role in mentoring engineers, improving team capability and driving succession planning.
This role requires strong expertise in React Native-based mobile platform development with working knowledge of native iOS and Android ecosystems , a solid understanding of mobile architecture patterns with leadership & collaboration skills to mentor & guide team of developers.
The ideal candidate is passionate about mobile technology, thrives in collaborative environments and has a proven track record of delivering high-quality mobile applications at-scale with good communication & collaboration skills.
Responsibilities :
- End-to-end ownership of mobile release management, App Store/Play Store publishing, compliance, monitoring, crash analytics and production support.
- Own technical governance of vendor-delivered code, ensuring architecture compliance, documentation completeness, code quality and effective knowledge transfer.
- Collaborate with backend teams and leverage APIs, databases and integration patterns to deliver robust mobile solutions.
- Good understanding and experience with governance & information security best practices for mobile applications.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, stakeholders & SMEs to translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, pair programming and knowledge sharing sessions. Drive capability development and succession planning for critical application components.
- Drive agile delivery through effective planning, release management, documentation, risk mitigation and stakeholder collaboration.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex mobile performance, compatibility, and production issues across devices and OS versions.
- Stay current with mobile platform updates (iOS/Android releases) and proactively identify upgrade and optimization opportunities.
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT - (Provide approx numbers of direct/indirect reports and indicate exempt/nonexempt employees; the level/degree of supervision provided)
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Responsible for technical leadership of mobile engineering team including mentoring, capability building, succession planning, performance coaching and engineering best practices
REQUIRED SKILLS
Must Have
- Minimum 6+ years hands-on (recent) experience on React Native with delivery of enterprise-scale mobile applications.
- Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS & TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES6+).
- Mobile application architecture patterns (MVVM, Clean Architecture, Modular Architecture)
- State management libraries (Redux, Zustand/Recoil, Context API)
- Mobile Security (Secure storage, Authentication mechanisms, OAuth/OIDC, Mobile security best practices, Data protection standards)
- Mobile CI/CD pipelines / Fastlane / GH Actions or ADO pipelines.
- Strong hands-on experience across the full mobile application lifecycle including architecture, development, testing, deployment, performance optimization and production support
- Experience managing App Store and Play Store releases, certifications and compliance requirements.
- API integration, offline storage, caching and synchronization strategies
- Mobile application performance optimization and observability
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, API integrations, authentication frameworks and backend integration patterns.
- Exposure to Open-Source platforms & solutions.
- Hands-on experience using collaboration tools like GitHub & ADO for project and repository management.
- Design & Coding best practices and tools (Sonar/GHAS etc.)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Build redundancy across critical application modules to reduce key-person dependency
Good to Have-
- Exposure to one or more of the following technologies:
- Backend Platforms (Python / https://jobeax.com/link/JSd7UYCSg572jJDY)
- Frontend Technologies – https://jobeax.com/link/6WcBICn0LM558SP0 (Angular exposure is an added advantage)
- RDMS (Oracle/SQL Server/Postgres)
- Document based databases like Mongo
- ORMs like Hibernate, Prisma, TypeORM etc.
- Hands-on experience with Native Android or iOS application design & development.
- Notification Technologies – Firebase, Azure Notification Hub or AWS SNS/Amplify
- Hands-on experience with DevOps/SecOps, Cloud (Azure/AWS) , SaaS/PaaS, AIOps
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional business and technology stakeholders.
- Experience integrating AI-powered capabilities, copilots or LLM-based services into mobile applications.
- Experience owning or contributing to business-critical production mobile applications with large-scale enterprise usage.
POSITION SPECIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in field of computer science/engineering & information technology. Other branches of engineering provided proven track record with skills through experience can also apply.