About the role
Requirements:
- Mobile: React Native, TypeScript.
- Native: Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android).
- Infrastructure and Ops: Monorepo, GitHub Actions, Fastlane.
- Testing and Monitoring: Vitest/Jest, Detox/Appium, Sentry, Firebase.
- AI-Assisted Development: AI coding assistants and modern AI-enabled engineering workflows.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience building and shipping mobile applications from inception to production.
- Strong production experience with React Native and a deep understanding of its architecture, capabilities, limitations, and technical trade-offs.
- Demonstrated ownership of mobile application architecture: making independent technical decisions for production systems, leading design discussions, and establishing engineering standards and practices.
- Experience owning production quality end-to-end: performance optimisation, reliability, automated testing, release engineering, and operating apps in production with crash reporting, observability, and incident response.
- Experience guiding and mentoring engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and complex problem-solving while maintaining high engineering quality.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills: partnering with product and design, challenging assumptions constructively, balancing technical and business considerations, and aligning geographically distributed teams, including Japan-based stakeholders.