Engineering Manager - React Native

This role will be an initial 12-Month FTC , before converting to perm, for an organisation who are looking to build internal capability.

Please note, this role requires 1-2 days a week on-site in Manchester.

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team of approximately 67 engineers, working primarily with React Native.

This is a hands-on leadership role, with approximately 70% of the focus on people management, team leadership and delivery, and 30% remaining technically hands-on. You will be responsible for building and developing a high-performing engineering team, supporting technical decision-making and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality, scalable mobile applications.

The successful candidate will combine strong React Native engineering experience with proven experience building, managing and developing engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and develop a team of approximately 67 engineers.
• Build and grow effective engineering teams, supporting recruitment, onboarding and team structure.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, regular feedback and career development support to engineers.
• Take ownership of team performance, engagement and ways of working.
• Work closely with engineering, product and delivery stakeholders to plan and prioritise technical delivery.
• Provide technical leadership across React Native mobile applications.
• Remain approximately 30% hands-on, contributing to development, code reviews, technical problem-solving and solution design.
• Support architectural and technical decision-making across mobile applications, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable and aligned with engineering standards.
• Promote engineering best practice across areas such as clean code, automated testing, CI/CD, application performance and software quality.
• Support effective integration between mobile applications, APIs and wider backend services.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies and delivery challenges and work with the team to resolve them.
• Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes, team capability and technical standards.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial mobile engineering experience using React Native.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript and/or TypeScript.
• Previous experience as an Engineering Manager, Software Engineering Manager, Technical Lead or similar technical leadership role.
• Proven experience building, growing or shaping engineering teams.
• Experience managing and developing teams of software engineers, ideally teams of around 510 people.
• Strong people management skills, including coaching, mentoring, performance management and career development.
• Comfortable balancing technical involvement with broader management responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of modern mobile engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, code quality and software design principles.
• Experience contributing to mobile architecture and engineering decision-making.
• Understanding of mobile application development and deployment across iOS and Android.
• Experience working with APIs and integrating mobile applications with backend services.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience working within Agile software development environments.
• Ability to create a collaborative, accountable and high-performing engineering culture.