Tech Lead - Mobile Apps

Worky; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

ESOP

Paid vacation

Learning & Development

Parental leave top-up

Discount programs

Job summary

Sobeys seeks a Tech Lead – React Native to guide the Mobile Applications team, setting engineering standards and architectural direction for Sobeys' scalable mobile apps. You will stay hands-on while elevating the team through mentorship, code reviews, and technical leadership.

Based in Mississauga, this full-time hybrid role partners with product and UX to shape the mobile roadmap, remove blockers, and ensure high-quality delivery across iOS and Android platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with production‑grade mobile apps.
• 5+ years hands‑on React Native, Kotlin, and Swift experience.
• 2+ years in a technical lead, staff engineer, or senior architect role with mentorship responsibilities.
• Deep expertise in mobile app architectures (MVC/MVP/MVVM/Clean) and tradeoffs.
• Proven ability to design scalable, performant mobile systems across iOS and Android.
• Strong SDLC, Agile/Scrum, and backlog management knowledge.
• Expert-level mobile development tooling knowledge (Gradle, Git, Gerrit, Gitflow, CI/CD).
• Proficiency with RxJava, Coroutines, Flow, and multithreading patterns.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs, Firebase, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration with stakeholders.
• Experience engaging with vendor engineers in technical reviews.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the mobile technical architecture strategy across React Native, iOS, and Android.
• Make architectural decisions balancing velocity, scalability, and maintainability.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards, patterns, and reviews across the team.
• Lead design reviews and promote adoption of new mobile technologies.
• Oversee CI/CD, release processes, and platform quality gates.
• Mentor and coach mobile developers, support hiring and onboarding.

Skills

React Native

Kotlin

Swift

Mobile architecture

RESTful API

CI/CD

GCP

Firebase

Leadership

Mentorship

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Gradle

Git

Gerrit

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Tech Lead – React Native to join our Mobile Applications team. In this senior leadership role, you will guide and mentor a team of mobile application developers while driving the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of Sobeys' mobile applications at scale.

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full-time opportunity for a Tech Lead. This role is based out of our office located in Mississauga, ON

You will be the technical authority on our mobile platform – setting engineering standards, making key architectural decisions, removing blockers for your team, and partnering with business and technology leadership to shape the mobile roadmap. This is a hands‑on leadership role: you will remain close to the code while elevating the entire team around you.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Define and own the mobile technical architecture strategy across React Native, iOS (Swift/Kotlin), and Android platforms.
• Make critical architectural decisions that balance velocity, scalability, and long‑term maintainability.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices, coding standards, and design patterns across the team.
• Lead technical design reviews and drive adoption of emerging mobile technologies and frameworks.
• Solid experience with RESTful API integration, Firebase, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Oversee CI/CD pipeline health, release engineering processes, and platform‑level quality gates.

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of mobile apps developers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous growth.
• Conduct regular code reviews, providing constructive feedback that elevates code quality and team capability.
• Support hiring and onboarding of mobile engineering talent; help define the technical bar for the team.
• Champion collective code ownership, pair programming, and knowledge‑sharing practices.
• Identify skill gaps within the team and create development plans and learning opportunities.

Delivery & Product Partnership

• Partner with Product Managers and UX designers to shape the mobile application roadmap, ensuring technical feasibility and strategic alignment.
• Own technical backlog grooming and sprint planning, translating product goals into well‑scoped engineering work.
• Drive end‑to‑end delivery of major features and initiatives across Sobeys' mobile applications and solutions.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (backend, QA, DevOps, data) to ensure seamless integration and delivery.
• Lead incident resolution for high‑severity production issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing lasting fixes.
• Engage with vendor engineers in technical discussions and collaborative code reviews to drive quality enhancements.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Continuously evaluate the mobile technology landscape and introduce improvements to tooling, frameworks, and development practices.
• Drive a culture of code refactoring and technical debt reduction across the mobile codebase.
• Lead efforts to expand automated testing, monitoring, and observability of mobile applications.
• Contribute to strategic initiatives and present technical recommendations to engineering leadership.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a demonstrated track record in production‑grade mobile applications.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in React Native, Kotlin, and Swift.
• 2+ years in a technical lead, staff engineer, or senior architect role, with direct mentorship of senior developers.
• Deep expertise in mobile app architecture patterns (MVC, MVP, MVVM, Clean Architecture) and the tradeoffs between them.
• Proven ability to design scalable, performant, and maintainable mobile systems across iOS and Android.
• Strong command of SDLC principles, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and backlog management.
• Expert‑level knowledge of mobile development tooling: Gradle, Git, Gerrit, Gitflow workflow, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in RxJava, Coroutines, Flow, and concurrency patterns for multithreaded mobile applications.
• Solid experience with RESTful API integration, Firebase, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Demonstrated leadership skills: ability to inspire, guide, and hold accountable a team of senior engineers.
• Excellent communication skills – able to articulate complex technical concepts to both engineering peers and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience engaging with vendor engineering teams in technical reviews and collaborative development.
• Passion for consumer product development with a strong eye for quality, design, and user experience.

Who we are:

We started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is fuelled by our purpose and values. It shapes our culture and drives business success. As a family nurturing families, we embed DE&I into everything we do. We know that it takes open minds and respect for distinct perspectives to create engaging workplaces, inclusive customer experiences and strong community partnerships.

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.

What we offer:

Our Total Rewards package is designed to help our teammates thrive—physically, financially, and emotionally. While offerings vary by role and employment types; eligible teammates may receive:

• Comprehensive Benefits Package with health and dental coverage, life insurance, and short‑and‑long‑term disability insurance.
• Access to Virtual Health Care and an Employee and Family Assistance Program for personalized support.
• Retirement and Savings Plan to help you build financial security.
• 10% In‑Store Discount at participating banners, plus additional discount programs.
• Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP), giving you the opportunity to invest in the company’s success.
• Learning and Development Resources to support your career growth.
• Parental Leave Top‑Up to assist growing families.
• Paid Vacation and Days Off to help you recharge.

Sobeys is committed to providing a compensation structure that is flexible, equitable and competitive in the market to enable performance and growth.

Individual Compensation is determined based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity within the range provided.

External websites may share our organization’s job postings which includes compensation information based on similar roles and market benchmarks. These figures are provided for general comparison purposes only and are not issued or verified by our organization.

To drive our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week.

We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to support efficiencies in the candidate screening, assessment, and recruitment processes. These AI tools do not make hiring decisions on behalf of the Company, these decisions are made by our Hiring Teams.

Please note: Successful candidates will be required to provide documentation to prove their legal ability to work in the position during the onboarding process. Documentation will be assessed by the employer prior to commencement of work.