Staff Mobile Engineer

September 16, 2026

Remote

Senior

Spain, London, Dublin

Description

This role is for a Founding Staff Mobile Engineer to lead the rebuild of a workforce app for restaurant employees using React Native and TypeScript. It involves owning the mobile platform, focusing on performance and reliability, with remote-first work across Europe. The position offers autonomy and equity participation.

Responsibilities

Assess the current mobile application, define the target architecture, plan the migration, and deliver an MVP within one to two quarters.
Build and maintain a reliable React Native application using TypeScript, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and maintainability.
Design mobile experiences that remain dependable on low-spec devices, limited connectivity, and challenging real-world conditions.
Implement offline caching and other resilience strategies to support reliable workflows when connectivity is inconsistent.
Build and maintain native mobile capabilities such as push notifications, camera-based document and receipt scanning, and geolocation-verified clock-ins.
Make independent product and UX decisions, balancing user experience, technical quality, scope, and delivery timelines.
Establish a modular React Native design system and shared component architecture that supports consistent, high-quality development.
Structure the codebase and development workflows so AI coding agents can contribute effectively while maintaining strong engineering and UX standards.
Grow the rebuilt application into a scalable mobile platform that other engineers can confidently build upon.
Partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and other teams to define priorities, solve problems, and deliver impactful features.
Maintain high standards for application performance, API usage, webhooks, testing, reliability, and overall code quality.
Serve as an outward-facing technical leader for the mobile platform, communicating clearly with engineers and stakeholders across the organisation.
Use AI tools to accelerate development while maintaining a high bar for craftsmanship, reliability, and product quality.

Requirements

Deep professional experience with React Native and TypeScript, including ownership of production mobile applications from start to finish.
Experience building native mobile capabilities such as push notifications, camera access, geolocation, or similar platform-specific functionality.
Strong understanding of mobile application architecture, performance, reliability, testing, and scalable engineering practices.
Experience building applications with significant real-world usage and high volumes of daily activity.
Ability to work comfortably across the stack, including reading and lightly extending backend services such as FastAPI when required.
Familiarity with React web applications and the ability to contribute when mobile initiatives require broader product or engineering support.
Experience delivering a greenfield application or leading a significant legacy migration, with the ability to explain architectural, testing, and migration decisions.
Strong product and UX instincts, with evidence of making meaningful product or design decisions rather than simply implementing predefined specifications.
Comfortable making independent UX and scope decisions when dedicated design support is limited.
Experience using AI coding tools or agents to accelerate development while maintaining high standards for quality and consistency.
Experience creating design systems, component libraries, or other reusable foundations that support scalable development.
Strong ownership mindset, with a focus on solving problems and delivering outcomes rather than simply completing assigned tickets.
Clear and confident written and verbal communication, with the ability to collaborate effectively across a distributed organisation.
Experience with people technology, HR technology, B2C/consumer-grade applications, hospitality, food service, or other operational industries is a plus.
Some hands-on familiarity with native APIs such as Swift or Kotlin is advantageous, though not required.
Right to work in the UK or EU without requiring visa sponsorship.

Conditions

Remote-first working environment across Europe.
Competitive salary based on experience.
Meaningful equity participation, giving employees an ownership stake in the business.
35 days of paid leave per year, including bank holidays.
Comprehensive private health insurance through Irish Life in Ireland and AXA in the UK.
Enhanced parental leave and baby loss support.
€1,000 annual personal learning and development budget.
Quarterly book budget to support continuous learning.
€250 home office workspace budget.
Regular team offsites and social events.
Ability to work from anywhere for up to 3 months each year.
Access to offices in London, Dublin, or Spain.
Opportunity to shape a critical mobile platform from its earliest stages.
Significant autonomy, technical ownership, and cross-functional visibility.
Collaborative, fast-moving environment focused on meaningful product impact.

React NativeTypeScriptFastAPIhospitality

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