Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and provide technical direction to the mobile platform team, with a focus on enabling product teams to operate as efficiently as possible through clear prioritisation of platform initiatives.
- Define, implement, and uphold engineering standards across mobile security, observability, performance, resilience, and release quality, continuously balancing standards improvement with minimal impact on product team velocity.
- Act as a hands-on technical leader in the development and maintenance of shared mobile platform capabilities within React Native and TypeScript.
- Contribute to architectural decisions relating to React Native, native modules, and integrations across Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, and Java.
- Own and drive improvements to CI/CD pipelines, build reliability, release workflows, and deployment processes, a critical and essential responsibility for this role.
- Own mobile platform-level observability and crash reporting, including tooling for logging, analytics, exception monitoring, and production stability; general service alerting is managed by product domain teams.
- Partner with product feature teams to ensure releases are delivered smoothly, meet quality expectations, and align with regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Drive improvements in automated testing practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing approaches that improve confidence in release quality.
- Own and coordinate production incident management and release activities, ensuring timely resolution, clear communication, and strong operational control.
- Collaborate with design and product teams to evolve and maintain shared UI components, platform standards, and mobile design system capabilities.
- Drive adoption of new tools, processes, and standards across product teams through mentoring, documentation, and training, ensuring improvements are embedded in practice, not just defined on paper.
- Identify and drive opportunities to improve platform stability, developer productivity, and the long-term maintainability of the mobile application estate.
- Promote secure application development practices and support compliance-aligned delivery within a regulated banking environment.
- Evaluate tooling evolution where relevant, including potential future considerations such as a move to Expo, in close collaboration with the team.
