Senior React Native Developer

Senior React Native Developer (up to £80,000)

Immediate is home to some of the biggest and most loved consumer brands in the UK, including Radio Times, Good Food and BBC Gardeners World magazine. Our trusted, quality content reaches millions of people a month across digital, print, video, podcasts, apps and live events.

We’re the destination for people looking to get more from the things they love. We’re here to inspire, fuel, encourage and educate

Whether it’s the big things, or the little things; from reaching fitness goals to savouring good food, cultivating outdoor spaces, or enjoying the latest TV sensation – we help bring our audiences joy!

About the role

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Senior React Native Developer to join our app development team.

You’ll help shape the future of Fabric, our digital publishing platform that powers some of the UK’s most iconic brands including and serves over 60 million unique users monthly. Our native apps are a rapidly growing part of this platform with hundreds of thousands of active subscribers.

As part of our cross-functional development team, you'll contribute to a shared codebase powering multiple apps, working with modern tooling and infrastructure including TypeScript, React Native, REST APIs, automated tests, and Bitrise for CI/CD.

You’ll report to the Lead React Native Developer and play a key role in building new features, supporting new brand rollouts, and maintaining app quality — always with a focus on user experience, performance, accessibility, and engineering best practices.

As a Senior React Native Developer you will;

• Immerse yourself in our technical ecosystem
• Take ownership of new feature development
• Support existing features, across our iOS and Android apps
• Lead by example in building reusable code, components and libraries for future use
• Drive performance optimisations and help define and uphold performance budgets
• Contribute to and improve our coding standards, best practices and guidelines
• Champion testing practices, using the relevant testing frameworks to ensure appropriate automated test coverage for all platform functionality
• Collaborate with team members and the Product Manager to progress our digital strategy
• Keep up to date with industry and technical developments and proactively bring suggestions back to the team
• Write and improve technical documentation when necessary
• Work across disciplines to deliver a great user experience for our customers

Requirements

• JavaScript / TypeScript
• React Native
• Integrating first and third-party services including REST APIs and analytics
• Automated testing including unit and end-to-end
• Understanding of the key differences between native platforms
• Git and NPM/Yarn to manage your work and dependencies
• Great communication skills with colleagues and stakeholders

Desirable

• In-App Purchases and subscriptions via the stores
• Agile working principles
• Working with a design system/component library
• Using JavaScript and React in the browser
• Hands on experience working with native modules on iOS and/or Android
• Experience with Bitrise and GitHub Actions

Benefits

• A relaxed working environment with regular socials including a summer festival
• Supportive well-being initiatives and benefits, talks & workshops, and Mental Health First aiders & Champions
• 25 days holiday plus a day for your birthday. Our offices will be closed between Christmas and New Year’s which are in addition to your annual entitlement
• Tailored training and development through both our inhouse learning platform and LinkedIn Learning
• A progressive and transparent culture focused on your development
• Flexible / hybrid working plus early finish Fridays
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced Family Policies including paternity, adoption and surrogacy leave. We also provide a pregnancy loss, fertility, and carers policy
• Competitive pension plans and Life Assurance
• A newly renovated modern office with lots of collaborative spaces

At Immediate, we pride ourselves on our open, collaborative, and dynamic culture that empowers our people to thrive and give their best. We care deeply about our people, environment, and impact. Our active Diversity & Inclusion network, comprehensive well-being programs, and clear sustainability strategies reflect this commitment.

People are at the heart of our business and creating a diverse and inclusive working environment is extremely important to us. Immediate is an equal opportunities employer. We’ll never treat anyone less favourably because of their sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marital/civil partnerships, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief or disability. We’re also committed to supporting applications from those who are returning to work following a career break, maternity leave or caring responsibilities.

Immediate is a place where you can grow, be supported, and make a difference