We are looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer with strong experience in React Native and Expo, capable of end-to-end mobile development. You’ll help define the technical direction, establish internal capability, and deliver a secure, production-ready mobile banking app across iOS and Android. Prior success publishing apps to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store is essential.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery & Collaboration
- Work with the Tech Lead to shape and deliver the mobile MVP
- Partner with product, design, and technology leadership to define and deliver core customer journeys.
- Provide guidance on mobile development standards, tooling, and patterns.
- Work in cross-functional squads to plan, refine, and deliver product features.
- Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and capability-building within the team.
- Support release processes, app store submissions, and environment readiness.
Mobile Application Development
- Build and maintain high-quality mobile experiences using React Native and Expo.
- Implement secure and reliable user flows, ensuring compliance with platform and regulatory expectations.
- Integrate with backend services and external partners where required.
Quality, Testing & Performance
- Ensure robust testing practices and high levels of reliability across supported devices.
- Monitor and improve app performance, stability, and overall user experience.
- Support troubleshooting, incident resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Security & Operational Readiness
- Apply modern mobile security practices and ensure the app meets security, compliance, and privacy requirements.
- Support operational readiness of the app through monitoring, observability, and release management.
- Experience with React Native and Expo.
- Proven track record of publishing apps to both Apple and Google app stores.
- Deep understanding of secure mobile authentication (OAuth2/OIDC PKCE, biometrics, SCA).
- Hands-on experience with mobile security best practices and secure storage.
- Strong background in CI/CD, automated testing, and mobile observability.
- Excellent communication skills and capability in cross-functional teams.
Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:
- Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
- Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
- Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
- EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounts on gym membership
- Contributory pension scheme & death in service
Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.
- Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
- Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
- Discounts on gym membership nationwide
- Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
- Community support and charitable giving
Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.
- Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
- Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done
