Lead React Native Engineer
Location: Atlanta, GA – Hybrid
Employment Type: 6-Month Contract-to-Hire
Relocation Assistance: Available
About the Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Lead React Native Engineer to help drive the development and technical direction of high-traffic, customer-facing mobile applications.
This is a hands-on engineering leadership role for someone who enjoys solving complex mobile challenges while continuing to write production code. You will work across iOS and Android, influence application architecture, guide other engineers, and partner with product and technical teams throughout the development lifecycle.
The ideal candidate has extensive React Native experience and can operate comfortably across application architecture, native mobile capabilities, API integrations, performance, releases, and production support.
What You'll Do
Design, build, and enhance production React Native applications for iOS and Android
Serve as a technical lead while remaining actively involved in development
Make architectural decisions around application structure, reusable components, state management, and platform-specific functionality
Review code and provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers
Build integrations with external APIs, SDKs, authentication providers, payment services, analytics platforms, and other third-party technologies
Partner with Product, UX, QA, backend, and engineering teams to take features from concept through production
Work with REST and GraphQL services and troubleshoot complex integration issues
Improve application performance, reliability, security, and maintainability
Implement and support features such as push notifications, deep linking, offline behavior, and location-based functionality
Participate in mobile build and deployment processes for both Apple and Android platforms
Support CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
Investigate production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement permanent solutions
Help establish engineering standards and scalable development practices
Collaborate with engineers working across multiple locations and development teams
What We're Looking For
7+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial mobile development experience
Several years of recent, hands-on React Native development
Advanced experience with JavaScript and TypeScript
Production experience delivering applications across both iOS and Android
Previous technical leadership experience involving architecture, code reviews, technical decision-making, or mentoring
Experience developing large-scale customer-facing mobile applications
Strong knowledge of mobile application architecture and design patterns
Experience with state management and complex application data flows
Strong experience integrating third-party APIs and SDKs
Experience consuming REST and/or GraphQL APIs
Understanding of mobile performance optimization, error handling, and application security
Experience with Git-based development and pull-request/code-review workflows
Experience supporting automated testing and CI/CD processes
Experience releasing production applications through the Apple App Store and Google Play
Experience diagnosing and resolving production mobile issues
Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Nice to Have
Native iOS development experience using Swift or SwiftUI
Native Android development experience using Kotlin
Experience creating or integrating custom native modules
Familiarity with modern React Native capabilities such as Fabric, TurboModules, Hermes, or JSI
Experience with tools such as Fastlane, GitHub Actions, Expo, or EAS
Experience with mobile monitoring and observability platforms
Experience with Jest, React Native Testing Library, Detox, Appium, Maestro, or similar testing frameworks
Experience implementing payment, authentication, analytics, geolocation, notification, or other mobile SDK integrations
Experience developing mobile applications involving transactions, customer accounts, rewards, promotions, or other high-volume consumer functionality
Experience working with distributed development teams
Ideal Profile
We're looking for someone who can move comfortably between technical strategy and hands-on implementation. You should be able to make an architectural decision in one conversation, review another engineer's code in the next, and then jump into the codebase yourself to build or troubleshoot a feature.
Strong candidates will bring a combination of:
React Native + TypeScript + iOS/Android + Mobile Architecture + Third-Party Integrations + Production Releases + Technical Leadership
Work Arrangement
This position is hybrid in Atlanta, GA and begins as a 6-month contract-to-hire opportunity. Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.
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