Mobile Platform Tech Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Pakistan.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and enhance the technical foundation of our mobile banking application.

• Guide, mentor, and provide technical leadership to the mobile platform team.

• Establish, implement, and maintain engineering standards in areas including mobile security, observability, performance, resilience, and release quality.

• Serve as a hands-on technical leader in developing and maintaining shared mobile platform capabilities using React Native and TypeScript.

• Contribute to architectural decisions involving React Native, native modules, and integrations with Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, and Java.

• Lead enhancements to CI/CD pipelines, ensuring build reliability, efficient release workflows, and effective deployment processes.

• Oversee mobile platform-level observability and crash reporting, incorporating tools for logging, analytics, exception monitoring, and production stability.

• Collaborate with product feature teams to facilitate smooth releases that meet quality standards and comply with regulatory requirements.

• Promote advancements in automated testing practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing methodologies that bolster release quality confidence.

• Manage production incident responses and release activities, ensuring prompt resolution, clear communication, and strong operational oversight.

• Work closely with design and product teams to develop and maintain shared UI components, platform standards, and mobile design system capabilities.

• Encourage the adoption of new tools, processes, and standards across product teams through mentoring, documentation, and training.

• Identify and pursue opportunities to enhance platform stability, developer productivity, and the long-term maintainability of the mobile application estate.

• Advocate for secure application development practices and support compliance-oriented delivery within a regulated banking environment.

• Assess tooling advancements where applicable, including potential future considerations such as transitioning to Expo.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in mobile engineering, with considerable time spent in roles such as Tech Lead, Mobile Platform Lead, Staff, or Principal Engineer.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in building and maintaining mobile applications using React Native and TypeScript, which forms the core of the technology stack.

• 4+ years of experience with native mobile development (Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, or Java) essential for maintaining and supporting existing native libraries.

• Lead and enhance CI/CD pipelines, ensuring build reliability, release processes, deployment workflows, and broader developer workflows—an essential requirement for this role.

• Strong comprehension of mobile architecture, including React Native bridges, native modules, and platform-level architectural decisions.

• Experience in managing or significantly improving mobile platform observability, crash reporting (e.g., Firebase Crashlytics, Sentry, Datadog), exception monitoring, and handling production incidents.

• Extensive experience with mobile testing methodologies, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing (e.g., Detox, Appium, Jest) to enhance release confidence.

• Solid understanding of engineering standards in mobile performance, resilience, reliability, and quality.

• 1+ year of experience leading a mobile platform team, with demonstrated accountability for technical direction, mentoring, and engineering standards.

• Proven track record of understanding product team needs and prioritizing platform work to eliminate blockers and expedite product delivery.

• Demonstrated capability to promote the adoption of new tools and processes across teams through documentation, training, and hands-on mentorship, rather than merely defining standards.

• Experience in setting and maintaining a high standard for a mobile codebase while balancing the ongoing trade-off between standards and team velocity.

• Strong collaborative skills across engineering, product, design, and, when necessary, compliance and regulatory stakeholders.

• Prior experience leading at least one major technical or platform project from start to finish.

• Experience in managing or directly leading engineers with a people-first approach to technical leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• A genuine community that prioritizes your growth and well-being.

• Empowerment to develop both personally and professionally.

• Opportunity to work in a highly-rated workplace.