Mobile Platform Tech Lead

Role Overview

• Lead, mentor, and provide technical direction to the mobile platform team, with a focus on enabling product teams to operate as efficiently as possible through clear prioritisation of platform initiatives.
• Define, implement, and uphold engineering standards across mobile security, observability, performance, resilience, and release quality, continuously balancing standards improvement with minimal impact on product team velocity.
• Act as a hands-on technical leader in the development and maintenance of shared mobile platform capabilities within React Native and TypeScript.
• Contribute to architectural decisions relating to React Native, native modules, and integrations across Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, and Java.
• Own and drive improvements to CI/CD pipelines, build reliability, release workflows, and deployment processes, a critical and essential responsibility for this role.
• Own mobile platform-level observability and crash reporting, including tooling for logging, analytics, exception monitoring, and production stability; general service alerting is managed by product domain teams.
• Partner with product feature teams to ensure releases are delivered smoothly, meet quality expectations, and align with regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Drive improvements in automated testing practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing approaches that improve confidence in release quality.
• Own and coordinate production incident management and release activities, ensuring timely resolution, clear communication, and strong operational control.
• Collaborate with design and product teams to evolve and maintain shared UI components, platform standards, and mobile design system capabilities.
• Drive adoption of new tools, processes, and standards across product teams through mentoring, documentation, and training, ensuring improvements are embedded in practice, not just defined on paper.
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve platform stability, developer productivity, and the long-term maintainability of the mobile application estate.
• Promote secure application development practices and support compliance-aligned delivery within a regulated banking environment.
• Evaluate tooling evolution where relevant, including potential future considerations such as a move to Expo, in close collaboration with the team.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in mobile engineering, including significant time operating at a Tech Lead, Mobile Platform Lead, Staff, or Principal Engineer level.
• 4+ years of production experience building and maintaining mobile applications with React Native and TypeScript, this is the core of the stack.
• 4+ years of experience with native mobile development (Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, or Java), required for maintaining and supporting native libraries already in use.
• Own and drive improvements to CI/CD pipelines, build reliability, release processes, deployment workflows, and broader developer workflows, this is an essential requirement for the role.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture, including React Native bridges, native modules, and platform-level architectural decisions.
• Experience owning or significantly improving mobile platform observability, crash reporting (e.g. Firebase Crashlytics, Sentry, Datadog), exception monitoring, and production incident handling.
• Strong experience with mobile testing approaches, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing (e.g. Detox, Appium, Jest) to drive release confidence.
• Solid understanding of mobile engineering standards across performance, resilience, reliability, and quality.
• 1+ year of experience leading a mobile platform team, with demonstrated responsibility for technical direction, mentoring, and engineering standards.
• Track record of understanding product team needs and prioritising platform work to remove blockers and accelerate product delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of new tools and processes across teams, through documentation, training, and hands-on mentoring, not just defining standards.
• Experience setting and maintaining a high-quality bar for a mobile codebase while managing the ongoing trade-off between standards and team velocity.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across engineering, product, design, and where relevant, compliance and regulatory stakeholders.
• Prior experience leading at least one significant technical or platform project end-to-end.
• Experience managing or directly leading engineers, with a people-first approach to technical leadership.

Tech Stack

• Firebase
• Java
• Jest
• Kotlin
• Objective-C
• React
• React Native
• Swift
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Fixed Shifts: 12:00 PM
• 9:30 PM IST (Summer) | 1:00 PM
• 10:30 PM IST (Winter)
• No Weekend Work: Real work-life balance, not just words
• Day 1 Benefits: Laptop and full medical insurance provided
• Support That Matters:Mentorship, community, and forums where ideas are shared
• True Belonging: A long-term career where your contributions are valued