Lead Mobile Engineer, React Native

Orca; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 55.000 - 85.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Orca is seeking a Lead Mobile Engineer (React Native) to guide the development of their next-generation navigation platform for boating. This hybrid role combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, focusing on delivering high-quality features like real-time routing and offline navigation, while mentoring junior engineers and shaping the engineering culture.

Servicios

Competitive salary + equity

High ownership of your work

Real-world impact in boating safety

Fast-moving team with big ambitions

Formación

• 7+ years of experience in React Native apps.
• Expert-level knowledge of TypeScript and modern front-end patterns.
• Leadership experience in small engineering teams.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the mobile App team, driving technical decisions and ensuring quality delivery.
• Mentor and grow React Native engineers.
• Partner with Product and Design to shape roadmap.

Conocimientos

React Native

TypeScript

Software Architecture

Performance Optimization

Clear Communication

Herramientas

Objective-C

Swift

CI/CD

Descripción del empleo

Orca is reinventing how people navigate the sea—building the next-generation navigation platform for recreational boating. Our mobile-first experience already guides hundreds of thousands of boaters with features like real-time routing, weather overlays, and offline navigation.

We’re looking for a

Lead Mobile Engineer (React Native)

to drive and scale the development of the Orca App. This is a

hybrid role

that blends hands-on engineering with technical and team leadership. Your success will come from architecting long-term solutions that endure, raising the bar for the team, and shaping an engineering culture centered on delivering high customer value.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the mobile App team—own the app architecture, drive technical decisions, and ensure high-quality delivery.
• Mentor, support, and help grow a small team of talented React Native engineers.
• Balance hands-on contributions with coaching and technical guidance.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and other teams to shape roadmap and execution.
• Build robust, performant, and reliable features like sail routing, real-time navigation, and offline maps.
• Champion best practices in code quality, testing, performance, and release management.
• Contribute to hiring and onboarding as we scale the engineering team.

What You Bring

• 7+ years of experience in React Native apps.
• Strong foundation in computer science principles and software architecture design.
• Expert-level knowledge of TypeScript, React, and modern front-end patterns.
• Hands-on experience upgrading React Native versions and managing code migrations.
• Strong capability in profiling and optimization for performance and battery usage.
• Experience with app instrumentation, monitoring, analytics, and observability.
• Proficiency with Objective-C / Swift, including native module integration and working knowledge of TurboModules / JSI.
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI / CD pipelines for mobile applications.
• Leadership experience in small engineering teams or technical projects.
• Strong systems thinking, balancing short-term velocity with long-term maintainability.
• Clear communication skills to align teams, clarify tradeoffs, and navigate ambiguity.
• Passion for product and UX—thinking like a customer and coding like an owner.

Why Join Orca?

• High ownership: Your work will directly impact thousands of users at sea. We’re a small, fast-moving team with big ambitions and no unnecessary layers.
• Real-world impact: This isn’t a typical consumer app—it's a mission-critical tool used in high-pressure, real-world scenarios.
• Great incentives: Competitive salary + equity in a well-funded, high-growth company.
• Global ambition: Join us early as we scale Orca to become the reference platform for boating worldwide—check out some features we’ve shipped: Navigation instruments, Weather for boaters, Guard Mode, Upgraded Logbook.

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