Tech Lead - Mobile Platform

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and provide technical direction to the mobile platform team, focusing on enabling product teams to operate efficiently through clear prioritization of platform initiatives.
• Define, implement, and uphold engineering standards across mobile security, observability, performance, resilience, and release quality, 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.
• Own mobile platform-level observability and crash reporting, including tooling for logging, analytics, exception monitoring, and production stability.
• 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.
• Own and coordinate production incident management and release activities, ensuring timely resolution and clear communication.
• 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.
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve platform stability, developer productivity, and 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.

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.
• 4+ years of experience with native mobile development (Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, or Java).
• 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, exception monitoring, and production incident handling.
• Strong experience with mobile testing approaches, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Solid understanding of mobile engineering standards across performance, resilience, reliability, and quality.
• 1+ year of experience leading a mobile platform team.
• Track record of understanding product team needs and prioritizing platform work.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of new tools and processes across teams.
• Experience setting and maintaining a high-quality bar for a mobile codebase.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across engineering, product, design, and compliance stakeholders.
• Prior experience leading at least one significant technical or platform project end-to-end.
• Experience managing or directly leading engineers.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience in a fintech, banking, or regulated product environment.
• Stronger depth in native mobile development beyond integration and maintenance support.
• Experience evaluating or supporting React Native tooling evolution.
• Exposure to shared platform components, design systems, or reusable mobile UI library development.
• Experience with secure mobile development practices.
• Familiarity with mobile performance optimization, resilience patterns, or broader non-functional quality standards.