Team Lead React Native Engineer (m/f/d)

Company Description

We are looking for a Team Lead React Native Engineer with strong English communication skills, a hands-on mindset, and proven leadership experience to join our mobile team and drive the next stage of our React Native app for iOS and Android.

You will lead a team of mobile engineers while staying close to the code: shaping architecture, improving quality and performance, and collaborating with product, design, and backend teams to deliver great user value.

Our offer:

• A fully remote position with flexible working hours
• Modern tech stack and well-established development standards
• Clear and regular feedback cycles
• An open-minded, experienced team that values clean code, collaboration, and product quality
• Learn more about how we work: https://auto1.tech

Your new Role

• Lead and grow the React Native team: set clear expectations, support individual development, mentor through code reviews/pairing, and provide actionable feedback.
• Own mobile domains end-to-end (features + technical areas): architecture and solution design, development, QA, shipping, monitoring, and long-term maintenance.
• Design, build, and maintain iOS/Android features in our React Native app, ensuring correctness, scalability, and a great user experience.
• Drive technical direction and architecture: lead discussions and make decisions that ensure long-term maintainability, performance, and reliability.
• Continuously improve app quality: speed, stability, UX, and engineering best practices through performance tuning and pragmatic, high-leverage improvements.
• Partner cross-functionally and support team scaling: collaborate with Product/Design/Backend to deliver business value, and contribute to hiring and onboarding strong mobile engineers.

Your Skills

• React Native expertise: 4+ years with JavaScript/TypeScript and 3+ years building and shipping production React Native apps for iOS & Android.
• Leadership & delivery ownership: 2+ years leading engineers (tech and/or people), accountable for team performance and delivery outcomes.
• Mobile best practices: strong fundamentals in navigation, animations, performance optimization, stability, and runtime debugging.
• State/data management: hands-on with state management (Redux/Zustand) and server state/data fetching (React Query / Apollo GraphQL).
• Production & releases: experienced with builds, rollout strategies, monitoring, hotfixes, and incident handling.
• Architecture + communication + mindset: able to own/evolve mobile architecture with pragmatic trade-offs; strong English communication; proactive, can-do, and coaching/mentoring oriented.