smart-working-solutions - Smart Working Solutions - Mobile Platform Tech Lead (Remote, Full-Time) [AS227] Europe
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Requirements
• 8+ years of experience in mobile engineering, including significant time operating at a Tech Lead, Mobile Platform Lead, Staff, or Principal Engineer level. • 4+ years of production experience building and maintaining mobile applications with React Native and TypeScript, this is the core of the stack. • 4+ years of experience with native mobile development (Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, or Java), required for maintaining and supporting native libraries already in use. • Own and drive improvements to CI/CD pipelines, build reliability, release processes, deployment workflows, and broader developer workflows, this is an essential requirement for the role. • Strong understanding of mobile architecture, including React Native bridges, native modules, and platform-level architectural decisions. • Experience owning or significantly improving mobile platform observability, crash reporting (e.g. Firebase Crashlytics, Sentry, Datadog), exception monitoring, and production incident handling. • Strong experience with mobile testing approaches, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing (e.g. Detox, Appium, Jest) to drive release confidence. • Solid understanding of mobile engineering standards across performance, resilience, reliability, and quality. • 1+ year of experience leading a mobile platform team, with demonstrated responsibility for technical direction, mentoring, and engineering standards. • Track record of understanding product team needs and prioritising platform work to remove blockers and accelerate product delivery. • Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of new tools and processes across teams, through documentation, training, and hands-on mentoring, not just defining standards. • Experience setting and maintaining a high-quality bar for a mobile codebase while managing the ongoing trade-off between standards and team velocity. • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across engineering, product, design, and where relevant, compliance and regulatory stakeholders. • Prior experience leading at least one significant technical or platform project end-to-end. • Experience managing or directly leading engineers, with a people-first approach to technical leadership. • Prior experience in a fintech, banking, or regulated product environment • Stronger depth in native mobile development (Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, or Java) beyond integration and maintenance support. • Experience evaluating or supporting React Native tooling evolution, including Expo or similar migration considerations. • Exposure to shared platform components, design systems, or reusable mobile UI library development and maintenance. • Experience with secure mobile development practices or a background that includes mobile security-focused work. • Familiarity with mobile performance optimisation, resilience patterns, or broader non-functional quality standards. • At Smart Working, you’ll never be just another remote hire. • Be a Smart Worker - valued, empowered, and part of a culture that celebrates integrity, excellence, and ambition. • If that sounds like your kind of place, we’d love to hear your story.
Responsibilities
• Lead, mentor, and provide technical direction to the mobile platform team, with a focus on enabling product teams to operate as efficiently as possible through clear prioritisation of platform initiatives. • Define, implement, and uphold engineering standards across mobile security, observability, performance, resilience, and release quality, continuously balancing standards improvement with minimal impact on product team velocity.• • Act as a hands-on technical leader in the development and maintenance of shared mobile platform capabilities within React Native and TypeScript. • Contribute to architectural decisions relating to React Native, native modules, and integrations across Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, and Java. • Own and drive improvements to CI/CD pipelines, build reliability, release workflows, and deployment processes, a critical and essential responsibility for this role. • Own mobile platform-level observability and crash reporting, including tooling for logging, analytics, exception monitoring, and production stability; general service alerting is managed by product domain teams. • Partner with product feature teams to ensure releases are delivered smoothly, meet quality expectations, and align with regulatory and compliance requirements. • Drive improvements in automated testing practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing approaches that improve confidence in release quality. • Own and coordinate production incident management and release activities, ensuring timely resolution, clear communication, and strong operational control. • Collaborate with design and product teams to evolve and maintain shared UI components, platform standards, and mobile design system capabilities. • Drive adoption of new tools, processes, and standards across product teams through mentoring, documentation, and training, ensuring improvements are embedded in practice, not just defined on paper. • Identify and drive opportunities to improve platform stability, developer productivity, and the long-term maintainability of the mobile application estate. • Promote secure application development practices and support compliance-aligned delivery within a regulated banking environment. • Evaluate tooling evolution where relevant, including potential future considerations such as a move to Expo, in close collaboration with the team.
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