React Native Lead

React Native Technical Lead**

Atlanta GA

12+ Months with possible of extentions

My client is seeking a hands-on React Native Technical Lead to support, stabilize, and enhance its consumer mobile application. This role will guide mobile engineering across iOS and Android, own technical quality, and work closely with product, architecture, backend, QA, DevOps, security, and production support teams. The successful candidate will combine strong React Native development skills with practical leadership and experience supporting a high-volume customer application.

Required Technical Skills**

• Strong hands-on experience building and supporting production applications with React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript.

• Deep understanding of React fundamentals, hooks, component design, navigation, state management, asynchronous programming, and mobile application lifecycle behavior.

• Experience with current React Native architecture and tooling, including native modules, bridging or TurboModules, Hermes, Metro, Gradle, Xcode, and package dependency management.

• Working knowledge of native iOS and Android development using Swift or Objective-C and Kotlin or Java, with the ability to diagnose issues outside the JavaScript layer.

• Experience integrating RESTful APIs, secure authentication, token management, deep links, push notifications, analytics SDKs, payment SDKs, and third-party mobile services.

• Strong understanding of mobile security, including secure storage, certificate handling, secrets management, data protection, OWASP mobile risks, and safe logging practices.

• Experience with test frameworks and tools such as Jest, React Native Testing Library, Detox, Appium, XCTest, or Espresso.

• Experience with CI and CD pipelines for mobile applications, automated builds, code quality checks, release signing, App Store Connect, and Google Play Console.

• Experience with application monitoring and troubleshooting tools such as Datadog, Firebase Crashlytics, Sentry, Quantum Metric, or equivalent platforms.

Ability to analyze logs, traces, crashes, API failures, device-specific behavior, and customer session evidence to isolate complex production problems.

Leadership and Delivery Expectations**

Translate business priorities into a practical mobile delivery plan and clearly communicate technical risks, options, dependencies, and tradeoffs.

Lead technical estimation, solution reviews, release planning, defect prioritization, and production-readiness assessments.

• Set clear quality expectations and ensure the team follows agreed architecture, coding, testing, security, and documentation practices.

• Coordinate effectively across distributed teams and vendors, particularly during critical releases, promotions, incidents, and hypercare periods.

• Take ownership of outcomes and drive issues to resolution while keeping product and technology stakeholders informed.

**Required Experience**

• Above 10 of software engineering experience, including at least five years in mobile application development.

• 5 years of strong hands-on React Native experience supporting applications used by external customers.

• 5 years in a technical lead or senior engineering lead role with responsibility for design decisions, code quality, mentoring, and production support.

• Proven experience releasing and operating mobile applications at scale across both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or comparable practical experience.

**Preferred Experience**

• Experience with restaurant, retail, ecommerce, hospitality, or other high-volume consumer digital platforms.

• Understanding of quick-service restaurant journeys such as store selection, menu configuration, cart, checkout, loyalty, offers, payment, order tracking, and delivery.

• Experience with AWS-hosted APIs and services and with diagnosing mobile-to-cloud performance and reliability issues.

• Experience designing graceful failure handling, offline or degraded-mode behavior, retry strategies, caching, and resiliency for third-party dependencies.

• Knowledge of mobile accessibility standards and practical experience validating applications with screen readers and accessibility test tools.

• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot while maintaining code-review, security, and quality controlsnshore technical lead for TSC Kiosk project."

Raju Chidurala

Team Lead | Talent Acquisition • GAC Solutions, Inc.

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