Software Development Engineer II - React Native
First seen by Alion on Nov 13, 2026.
Role overview:
As a React Native Software Development Engineer, you'll be working in an agile team of industry leading engineers upon Tesco's customer facing mobile application. Working with Product Managers, you will be responsible for the future direction of the products that we build, solving problems and developing new features through quality, scalable, performant and maintainable technical solutions. The solutions that you will be responsible for will have a global reach, impacting millions of customers. You'll be a passionate, pragmatic React Native Software Development Engineer with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and most importantly put our customer first. You'll enjoy working as part of a team and be a keen problem solver. Comfortable with modern engineering practices and mobile development tooling and technologies you'll use innovation to improve the customer experience and efficiency of engineering teams.
Qualifications and relevant experience for this job:
We are looking for people who have a passion for Technology. You will likely have made open-source contributions and have a GitHub account. You will demonstrate experience of different platforms and technologies. We expect to see some or all the following:
- Experience in architecting complex mobile applications
- Extensive experience working on commercial software development in React Native
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Firm understanding of software development principles, capabilities, and limitations of mobile platforms
- Passion for mobile development. We would love to hear about apps you've developed.
- Understanding and exposure to integrating GraphQL API endpoints
- Strong experience and understanding of industry standard mobile accessibility
- Experience in full development life cycle; design, coding, test, build, QA, deployment, and maintenance
- Exposure to the DevOps model
- Experience in Lean and Agile environments and understanding of principles behind methodologies such as: BDD, ATDD and TDD
- A strong team player with the ability to influence and lead stakeholders when necessary
- Demonstrable ability to self-manage, be proactive, take ownership, build relationships, and drive solutions through from inception to production
What would you do here:
You will be working on the Tesco UK mobile application to implement the capabilities to improve and personalize customer experience and ease of use in the store. In this team we use the latest technologies, working with a GraphQL backend (maintained by another team). This squad of 7 will have both Android and iOS developers and you will work closely with our other native development and platform teams to deliver a high-quality product.
We love to work with smart people who have a strong sense of ownership and strong engineering mindset.
- You provide mobile perspective and context for technology choices.
- You're up to the challenge of device and mobile network limitations, device fragmentation, and other mobile development curve balls.
- You are motivated to tackle ambiguous situations with new technologies to rapidly produce prototypes.
- You outline paths from prototype to product.
- You are a technical leader for your team. You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices on your team
Skills
Mobile, React Native, GraphQL, Agile, DevOps