Lead Front End Engineer (React Native)

Zapp; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Lead Front End Engineer, where you will enhance user experiences for a premium convenience retail app. You will translate designs into high-quality code, develop user-facing features, and optimize app performance, making a significant impact on the industry. This innovative firm is dedicated to disrupting the convenience retail market with cutting-edge technology and a customer-centric approach. If you're passionate about building fluid user interfaces and leading a team, this role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of retail technology in London and beyond.

Benefits

Competitive salary & equity package

25 days holiday per year

Private Health Insurance

Extended sick pay

Maternity/paternity leave pay

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in front-end development for B2C apps.
• Strong skills in React Native and Typescript are essential.

Responsibilities

• Translating designs into high-quality code for iOS and Android apps.
• Developing new user-facing features and optimizing app components.

Skills

React Native

Typescript

Node.js frameworks

GraphQL

Kotlin

Swift

User Interface Design

Communication Skills

Job description

Lead Front End Engineer (React Native)
Vauxhall,London - Hybrid (2 days WFH)

We are looking for a Lead Mobile Front-End Engineer to help us build on our previous success with the Zapp app and create a world class user experience for our customers.

In this role, you will be responsible for enhancing the user interface and experience for our consumer-facing app. You'll implement visual elements and program their behaviour with user interactions, work with designers and product managers to articulate and test hypotheses, and convert winning ideas into scalable tech that will make Zapp the industry leader in the 'Quick Commerce' space in London - and beyond.

Main Responsibilities:

• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Developing new user-facing features for both our iOS and Android apps
• Benchmarking and optimising various components of the front-end app
• Analysing experiment data with our Product and Engineering team

By the end of your first year you will have achieved:

1. Domain expertise in our iOS/Android apps
2. Increased quality of quantity of commits pushed to production
3. Being instrumental in helping your manager grow a mature team of engineers
4. Defining KPIs for performance inside the app and driving changes across the stack to achieve these KPIs
5. Being the voice of Engineering in quarterly/annual planning

Role requirements:

• At least 5 years professional experience as a front-end developer working on a B2C consumer app (essential)
• Experience using React Native (essential)
• Strong Typescript skills along with any Node.js frameworks (e.g. Express.js or Koa.js).
• Passionate about building fluid user interfaces that delight customers
• Able to operate independently and lead small teams, with little guidance
• Strong written and verbal communication in English
• Knowledge of GraphQL, Kotlin and/or Swift AWS (beneficial)

Benefits:

• Competitive salary & equity package
• Enjoy 25 days holiday per year (plus all bank holidays)
• Private Health Insurance
• Extended sick pay and maternity/paternity leave pay

About Us

Zapp is London’s leading premium convenience retail platform. Founded in 2020, our vision is to disrupt the multi-trillion dollar convenience retail market, currently dominated by major players, by developing best-in-class customer-centric technology and fulfilment solutions. Zapp partners with some of the world’s leading brands to deliver an exclusive range of hand-picked products 24/7, delivered in minutes.