Software Engineer – Prototype, Innovation R&D
Input Output (IOHK)
HaskellRust
Technical Lead – Mobile Apps
Arbor Education
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £80,000 - £85,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSKotlinPHPReactReact NativeSwift
About the role
- Design, build, and own mobile application architecture, selecting appropriate libraries and tools to ensure our products are robust, scalable, and secure.
- Lead by example by writing clean, high-quality, and well-tested React Native code.
- Establish and document coding standards, and incorporate the organisation’s automated testing frameworks to enable a quality-first culture.
- Work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, QA, Designers, and other Engineers and Tech Leads to align technical direction with product strategy and the organisation’s API strategy.
- Work actively with the architecture community (ATLAS) to define processes, drive technology adoption, and share best practices across teams.
- Play a role in hiring, onboarding, and mentoring, where required.
- Ensure non-functional requirements like performance, reliability, and security are addressed in all solution designs.
- Champion accountability by ensuring systems are observable and meet agreed Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Lead Root Cause Analysis when issues occur.
- Lead estimation and feasibility assessments, making sure plans are realistic and aligned with team skills and capacity.
- Establish a proactive strategy for managing technical debt from the outset to ensure long-term product health and maintainability.
- Contribute to structured release planning, ensuring phased rollouts deliver value early (MVP-first), and support post-release reviews.
Requirements
- Significant professional experience building, shipping, and maintaining complex mobile applications using React Native.
- Experience with enterprise-scale or high-availability app and systems.
- Proven experience taking a mobile application from initial concept through to a successful launch on the App Store and/or Google Play.
- Strong grounding in engineering principles and design patterns (e.g. SOLID, DRY).
- Deep experience designing, consuming, and collaborating on RESTful APIs, with a strong understanding of mobile-centric API requirements.
- Working knowledge of AWS, including services relevant to mobile application backends.
- Familiarity with observability practices (monitoring, metrics, alerting) and Root Cause Analysis.
- Understanding of secure coding and compliance requirements.
- Experience with mentoring engineers, and a passion for fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
- Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Agile facilitation (Scrum/Kanban) and continuous improvement.
- **Bonus skills**
- Native mobile development experience (Swift/Kotlin) for building bridges or performance-critical components.
- Hands-on experience setting up CI/CD pipelines for React Native applications (e.g., using tools like Fastlane, Bitrise, or GitHub Actions).
- Knowledge of the PHP ecosystem, to better facilitate backend collaboration.
Benefits
- A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
- 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
- Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
- Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks
- Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
- Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
- 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
- Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
- All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
- Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
- Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
- Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
React Nativemobile application architectureRESTful APIsAWSCI/CD pipelinesSOLIDDRYsecure codingobservability practicesRoot Cause Analysis
Soft skills
mentoringcollaborative team culturecommunicationAgile facilitationleadershipaccountabilityproblem-solvingdocumentationtechnical direction alignmentperformance management
