Technical Lead React Native

Position: React Native Technical Lead
Location: Atlanta, GA – Onsite
Duration: Long Term
Role: Onsite Technical Lead – TSC Kiosk Project

Job Description:

We are seeking a React Native Technical Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership for a consumer-facing mobile application supporting iOS and Android. The role will focus on application stability, performance, security, production support, architecture, and feature delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical design, development, code reviews, troubleshooting, and release readiness of the React Native application.
• Own mobile architecture, technical roadmap, coding standards, reusable components, dependencies, and technical debt.
• Drive production support, incident triage, root-cause analysis, performance optimization, and application stability.
• Work closely with Product, UX, Backend, Cloud, DevOps, QA, Security, and offshore/onshore teams.
• Lead integrations with REST APIs, authentication, payments, loyalty, ordering, analytics, messaging, and notifications.
• Strengthen unit, integration, component, and end-to-end testing and prevent regression in critical customer journeys.
• Manage mobile CI/CD, builds, signing, environment configuration, feature flags, releases, rollbacks, App Store, and Google Play deployments.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction across distributed teams.

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in mobile development.
• 3+ years of strong hands-on React Native experience with TypeScript/JavaScript.
• 2+ years in a Technical Lead/Senior Engineering Lead role.
• Strong knowledge of React, React Native, TypeScript, JavaScript, Hooks, Navigation, State Management, and mobile lifecycle.
• Experience with iOS/Android native development using Swift/Objective-C and Kotlin/Java.
• Hands-on experience with Hermes, Metro, Gradle, Xcode, native modules/TurboModules, and dependency management.
• Experience with REST APIs, authentication, token management, deep linking, push notifications, payment/analytics SDKs.
• Strong understanding of mobile security, secure storage, OWASP mobile security, secrets management, and data protection.
• Experience with Jest, React Native Testing Library, Detox, Appium, XCTest, or Espresso.
• Experience with CI/CD, App Store Connect, Google Play Console, and mobile release engineering.
• Experience with Datadog, Firebase Crashlytics, Sentry, Quantum Metric, or similar monitoring tools.
• Strong production troubleshooting, debugging, performance optimization, and incident-management skills.

Preferred:

• Experience in retail, restaurant, ecommerce, hospitality, or high-volume consumer applications.
• Experience with AWS, mobile-to-cloud integrations, resiliency, caching, retry mechanisms, and degraded/offline functionality.
• Knowledge of mobile accessibility standards.
• Experience with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, or other AI-assisted development tools.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.