[Hiring] Senior React Native Engineer @USoftware

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Senior React Native Engineer to join our thriving UK business. In this role, you will be part of the team developing our Cazoo App, a platform designed to bring a world-class automotive experience directly to our users.

As a Senior Engineer, you will lead by example, shaping the technical direction and delivery of our mobile solutions. With a strong growth mindset and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences, you will collaborate closely with engineers, architects, and product owners to deliver high-quality, scalable, and performant applications that delight our customers.

This is an exciting chance to make a significant impact on a product that will be used by millions.

Main Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Development: Lead design, development, and deployment of robust, scalable, and high-performance mobile applications using React Native for both iOS and Android.
• Code Quality & Best Practices: Drive the adoption of high coding standards, best practices, and architectural patterns, ensuring solutions are performant, reliable, available, scalable, and secure.
• Architectural Contributions: Proactively contribute to architectural discussions, system design, and technical decision-making within your team and the wider engineering department.
• Agile Collaboration: Use agile methodologies, actively participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives. Ensure engineering decisions align with business needs while managing technical debt, stability, and observability.
• Performance & Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, and other issues to ensure optimal application performance and responsiveness.
• Testing & Debugging: Implement and advocate for comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies, and possess expert debugging skills to ensure application stability and quality.
• Cross-functional Partnership: Collaborate with Product Owners, UX/UI Designers, Backend Engineers, and QA to translate requirements into technical specifications and deliver integrated solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven commercial experience as a React Native Engineer, with a strong portfolio of apps successfully deployed to the Apple App Store and Google Play.
• Product Mindset: Thinks beyond the ticket, understands user needs, business context, and the why behind what's being built, not just the how.
• Demonstrable experience successfully integrating complex APIs from diverse sources into a cohesive app platform.
• Experience with the Expo framework for rapid development and deployment.
• Proactive & Action-Oriented: Drives initiatives and takes decisive action.
• Adaptable & Resilient: Thrives in dynamic environments and learns from setbacks.
• Impact-Driven: Prioritizes and delivers solutions that create measurable value.
• Feedback-Oriented: Actively seeks and provides constructive feedback for growth.
• Innovative Mindset: Continuously seeks opportunities to improve and innovate.

Requirements

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for mobile applications.
• Full-stack experience, particularly with backend technologies.
• Experience with deep linking, universal links, and attribution tracking.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience in mobile performance optimisation and monitoring techniques and tools.
• Experience with native mobile development (Kotlin/Swift) and the ability to create and integrate native modules when necessary.

Benefits

• 20 working days of vacation and 15 sick leaves (all public holidays as well);
• Health Insurance (after trial);
• Fitness membership (after trial);
• Ability to work from home or remotely;
• Corporate Events.