Lead Mobile Application Developer - React Native - Banking*

Summary: The Tech Lead - Mobile Applications role in Sheffield involves leading a mobile engineering team to deliver innovative mobile features while collaborating with various stakeholders. The position requires a strong focus on technical excellence, scalability, and performance in mobile app development. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development, particularly with React Native, and a passion for mentoring and building effective teams. This hybrid role emphasizes hands-on coding and problem-solving in an agile environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a talented mobile engineering team, ensuring technical excellence across projects.
• Guide architectural design, work prioritisation, and solution development in a collaborative environment.
• Drive scalability, performance, usability, and maintainability across mobile products.
• Collaborate across product and engineering teams to design, build, test, and deploy impactful features.
• Support and coach engineers to grow their skills and confidence, fostering a positive, energising culture.
• Be hands-on: code, problem-solve, and innovate in a fast-moving agile environment.

Key Skills:

• 8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on native mobile development.
• At least 3+ years industry experience of using React Native.
• Experience leading engineers for at least 1+ years within a mobile development environment.
• Deep expertise in React Native and strong working knowledge of Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into clear, achievable technical outcomes.
• Passion for robust, user-friendly mobile applications with high performance and security standards.
• A collaborative mindset — great at partnering across engineering, product, UX, and beyond.
• Strong coaching instincts: lift others up and build strong, high-trust teams.
• A curious, continuous learner who brings new ideas and innovation to the table.
• Agile development experience across large-scale software products.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Sheffield

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT