React Native Tech Lead

Summary

Join Zeller's growing engineering team as a React Native focused Tech Lead, combining hands-on technical contributions with people leadership. Manage a remote team of three engineers while owning systems behind Zeller's Mobile App and Point of Sale software. Lead from the front, staying deeply technical as a player-coach, impacting technical leadership with formal people management responsibilities. The Mobile team develops and scales customer-facing mobile applications for Australian (and soon international) businesses. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to build and enhance Zeller Mobile App and Zeller Point of Sale products, including mobile banking and payment solutions.

Requirements

• You have owned solution design for complex features within mobile apps before and have worked with applications used at scale, or which were mission critical to their customer
• You have worked in product-driven companies and have a track record of driving pace and deliveryYou are experienced in mobile system design and demonstrate well reasoned, rational decision making with the ability to navigate between detail and broader context
• You have exceptional written and verbal communication and can move from a conversation with non-technical stakeholders to reframing a project into detailed designs requirements for your engineering team
• You have a strong self-learning drive and are actively using and adapting your workflows to incorporate generative AI tools

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural solutions collaboratively with your team and engineering leadership, to build and scale Zeller’s mobile products
• Write production code regularly as a core contributor while maintaining oversight of your team's technical deliverables
• Own operational excellence for your team’s systems including monitoring, incident response, and reliability improvements
• Champion modern development practices including active use of LLMs within your team and the adoption of technical practices at Zeller
• Lead a team of 3 software engineers, identifying skill gaps, managing personal development plans and fostering a positive culture of learning, ownership, and psychological safety
• Partner closely with product managers as joint owners of your product success, contributing technical and delivery insight to shape what gets built

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience with React Native is highly valued, and experience with payment or mobile banking solutions is a plus