Senior React Native Engineer - Remote Eligible

Senior React Native Engineer

As a Senior React Native Engineer, you'll play a key role in rebuilding a large-scale UK news mobile application into a modern, video-led digital experience. You'll design, build and optimise high-quality mobile features for both iOS and Android, contributing from discovery and architecture decisions through to delivery. Working within an Agile team, you'll help shape scalable, performance-driven mobile experiences while leveraging AI-assisted development tools to enhance productivity and code quality.

What Will You Be Doing

You will join our engineering team as a valued member, working closely with a collaborative, autonomous, cross-functional team. You will help with the following:

• Contribute to the rebuild of a high-traffic news mobile application using React Native
• Design and implement a scalable, component-based UI architecture
• Build a video-led content experience focused on performance and usability
• Integrate with third-party SDKs for content delivery
• Work in an Agile environment (Scrum, two-week sprints)
• Support mobile build and deployment processes (iOS & Android)
• Collaborate with Product and Design to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Debug, refactor and continuously improve the existing codebase
• Leverage AI-assisted coding tools to increase efficiency and maintain high code standards

What We Are Looking For

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong commercial experience building React Native apps for both Android and iOS
• Deep knowledge of TypeScript
• Experience with Expo and mobile build/deployment workflows
• Strong understanding of component-based architecture and state management
• Experience consuming REST APIs and handling asynchronous data
• Ability to write clean, testable, maintainable code
• Strong debugging and refactoring skills
• Proficiency with Git for version control
• Experience working in Agile development environments
• Strong English communication skills (written and verbal)
• Comfortable working within a UK time-zone aligned team

Awesome But Not Required

• Experience working on high-traffic content or media applications
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Copilot-style workflows)
• Experience integrating third-party content or storytelling SDKs
• Previous experience contributing to early-stage rebuild or re-architecture projects

What's In It For You?

• Be part of our collegial environment where responsibility and authority are shared equally amongst colleagues and help create our company culture
• A culture in which we don't criticise failure but ensure we learn from our mistakes
• An Agile environment where your ideas are welcome
• The possibility to grow and experience different projects
• Ongoing Training & Mentoring
• The possibility to travel

- Attention! This position is for Brazil-based only