Lead React Native Engineer - Canada

Role summary. Lead engineer on the delivery team. Owns the highest-complexity screens and integrations.

Responsibilities.

• Deliver highest-complexity screens and integrations across three delivery waves.

• Set engineering patterns, reference implementations, and code standards for the team.

• Pair with the client's engineers on paired-programming and knowledge transfer.

• Own payment integration, Auth0 identity flow, and push notification architecture at code level.

• Lead pull request reviews.

• Contribute to Architecture Decision Records.

• Support the four self-sufficiency exercises duringhypercare(deploy hotfix, onboard from KB, restore during simulated P1, extend using established patterns).

Must-havetechnical experience

• 8+ years mobile engineering, minimum5years hands-on React Native in production.

• Direct production experience with React Native 0.76+ and the New Architecture (Bridgeless,TurboModules, Fabric).

• Strong TypeScript, comfortable with strict mode.

• Hands-on with Hermes engine and Expo SDK 52 prebuild.

• Direct experience withTanStackQuery andZustand.

• Detox authorship for end-to-end mobile tests, both iOS and Android.

• Priorintegration of Apple Pay and Google Pay (tokenisedpayment handles).

• Prior integration of Auth0 or equivalent OIDC identity in mobile.

• Prior implementation of APNs and FCM push notifications, including token migration on version upgrades.

• Universal Links and AppLinksdeep-link routing.

Native platformexpertise(required).

• Comfortable reading and writing native iOS (Swift or Objective-C) and native Android (Kotlin or Java) at the levelrequiredto author or maintainTurboModulesbridging native SDKs into React Native.

• Prior experience with iOS Keychain and Android Keystore for secure token storage.

Migration andreplatformexperience (required).

• Direct experience on at least one mobilereplatformfrom native to React Native, in production.

• Understanding of auth token migration, push token re-registration, cached data reconciliation on first launch afterreplatform.

Industry background (preferred).

• Regulated Canadian mobile experience (public sector, transportation, financial services).

• Bilingual (English and French) app delivery experience.

• WCAG 2.1 or 2.2 accessibility delivery.