Engineering Lead – Mobile App (React Native)

Responsibilities: 

• You are responsible for the full E2E delivery cycle: from quarterly plannings, requirements analysis, effort estimation, through design, implementation, QA, and delivery.
• You nurture an inspiring environment with open communication and a culture of trust.
• You proactively resolve impediments and mitigate risks for your team.
• In case you need to escalate delivery and team risks, you do this in a timely fashion, with a well-articulated solution/mitigation plan.
• You collaborate closely with your team’s Product Manager and Tech Lead.
• You facilitate the team’s work on strategy and planning for the delivery.
• Together with the Product Manager, you drive the OKR process for your team: communication of objectives, KR definition, team commitment, and pairing OKRs with individual target agreements for your engineers.
• You recruit, hire, and onboard engineers into the team.
• You develop both your engineers’ soft- and technical skill-sets according to the company’s goals and needs.
• You craft agreements and individual development plans with every team member, aligned to the team's goals.
• You uncover training opportunities as well as provide coaching for your team.
• You recognize high performance and reward accomplishments.
• You establish and keep strong performance standards for your direct reports.

Requirements:

• You have a university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related fields or equivalent practical experience.
• You bring at least 3 years of leadership/people management experience.
• You have strong hands-on experience (min. 5 years) as a Mobile Application Engineer.
• You know how to manage software projects to a successful delivery in collaborative fashion.
• You are comfortable with open code and architecture discussions.
• You have strong experience with React Native and you are experienced using React Hooks, Redux and TypeScript.
• You have solid practical knowledge in app integration and delivery lifecycle, including code signing and app store reviews. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Fastlane) is a plus.
• You have fundamental experience consuming RESTFul APIs and building React Native UI components. Also, you have knowledge of building native modules in Android and iOS.
• You have experience in Unit Testing or TDD using frameworks/libraries like Jest and Enzyme. Any experience with an E2E testing framework like Detox is a plus.
• Fluency in English; German-language skills are a plus but not mandatory.