Lead React & React Native Engineer (Technical Architect)

Sandton / Hybrid | 12-Month Contract

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead React & React Native Engineer (Technical Architect) to join a leading financial services institution on a 12-month contract. This role goes beyond writing code we need a technical leader and architect who can elevate projects, mentor teams, and set engineering best practices while remaining hands-on.

You will shape the mobile architecture, balance innovation with stability, and deliver secure, high-performance applications that redefine the digital banking experience.

Key Responsibilities :

• Technical Leadership : Guide architecture decisions, enforce coding standards, mentor engineers, and drive technical excellence across mobile initiatives.
• Hands-On Engineering : Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure React Native applications.
• Architecture & Strategy : Define cross-platform strategies, balancing shared code with platform-specific optimisations (knows when to go native).
• Native Integration : Develop and integrate custom native modules (iOS / Android) when performance or security requires it.
• Security-First Delivery : Implement secure storage, token-based authentication, HTTPS, code obfuscation, and compliance with financial security standards.
• DevOps & CI / CD : Own the setup and optimisation of mobile CI / CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and deployments.
• Testing & Quality : Champion test-driven development, implement Jest / Detox test suites, and leverage profilers for performance tuning.
• Monitoring & Analytics : Integrate crash reporting (Sentry, Crashlytics), analytics, and monitoring tools (Dynatrace, ELK).
• Collaboration : Work closely with product owners, solution engineers, designers, backend developers, and stakeholders to deliver seamless experiences.

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Preferred Background

If you are a React Native leader who thrives in fast-paced, high-security environments and want to play a key role in transforming the mobile banking experience, we'd love to hear from you.