Staff Frontend Engineer (React Native)

AirAsia MOVE is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer (React Native) to lead the technical architecture, scalability, performance, and reliability of our Super App platform. As a senior Individual Contributor (IC), you will drive architectural decisions across mobile applications; collaborate closely with backend, cloud, security, trust, and product teams; and help deliver seamless travel and payment experiences to millions of users. This role requires deep expertise in React Native, mobile system architecture, performance optimization, deployment strategies, and building large-scale consumer-facing applications.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Architecture and Technical Leadership:

• Define and evolve the frontend architecture strategy for AirAsia's Super App ecosystem.
• Design scalable, maintainable, and high-performing React Native applications.
• Drive system architecture discussions involving mobile, backend, cloud, and platform engineering teams.
• Establish engineering standards, coding practices, and architectural governance across teams.
• Lead technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance for critical initiatives.

Performance and Scalability:

• Optimize application performance, startup time, rendering efficiency, memory consumption, and network utilization.
• Design solutions capable of supporting millions of users across multiple geographies.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and performance measurement frameworks.
• Drive initiatives to improve app stability, reliability, and user experience.

Cloud and Backend Collaboration:

• Partner closely with backend and cloud engineering teams to design robust APIs and scalable services.
• Contribute to end-to-end solution architecture spanning frontend, backend, and cloud platforms.
• Ensure seamless integration between mobile applications and distributed backend systems.

Security, Quality, and Deployment:

• Champion mobile security best practices and secure coding standards.
• Drive security testing, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.
• Establish automated testing, quality assurance, and release management practices.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, feature rollouts, and app store releases.

Analytics and Data:

• Work closely with analytics teams to implement tracking, instrumentation, and user behavior measurement.
• Enable data-driven decision-making through robust analytics frameworks.
• Ensure accurate event tracking and performance metrics collection.

Cross-functional Collaboration:

• Collaborate with Trust and Safety, Security, Product, Design, Backend, Cloud, and Platform teams.
• Influence technical roadmaps and drive alignment across multiple engineering organizations.
• Mentor engineers and elevate overall engineering excellence within the organization.

Requirements:

• 8-12 years of software engineering experience with at least 5/7+ years in React Native development.
• Proven experience operating as a Senior or Staff-level Individual Contributor.
• Strong expertise in React Native, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Deep understanding of mobile application architecture and system design principles.
• Experience building and scaling high-traffic consumer applications.
• Strong knowledge of performance optimization and mobile engineering best practices.
• Experience integrating mobile applications with backend services, APIs, and cloud-native platforms.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, deployment automation, and release management.
• Strong understanding of mobile security, authentication, authorization, and security testing.
• Experience implementing analytics and event-tracking frameworks.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on Super Apps, payments, e-commerce, or travel platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Familiarity with native Android (Kotlin) and iOS (Swift) development.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, crash analytics, and performance tooling.
• Experience working in globally distributed engineering teams.