Lead React Native Engineer

AND Digital; Reading; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension: 6% + 2% employer/employee

Healthcare (Aviva)

Flexibenefit £1000

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Eye test & glasses

Enhanced Parental Leave

Job summary

AND Digital Limited in Reading seeks a senior technical architect to shape mobile strategy across web and native platforms. You will evaluate approaches, lead POC work, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product goals into scalable solutions.

You will define the core technology stack and architecture, guide engineers, and balance performance, cost, and future business needs in a dynamic client environment.

Qualifications

• Assess native mobile development versus cross-platform solutions, including React Native, against product strategy and future business goals.
• Evaluate options based on performance, scalability, maintainability, skills adoption, reusability, cost and industry benchmarks, recommending a preferred approach.
• Deliver a POC to validate feasibility, performance, platform constraints, integration complexity and architectural assumptions.
• Involve existing engineers in the POC to assess the learning curve, skills requirements and practical adoption challenges.
• Identify technical risks, unknowns, dependencies and capability gaps, documenting POC findings and the agreed route forward.
• Define and document the recommended architecture and core technology stack, including shared and platform-specific capabilities across web and mobile.
• Map shared and platform-specific components, covering APIs, business rules, identity, design systems, component libraries, release processes, quality engineering and observability.
• Produce a prioritised, high-level technical backlog outlining implementation tasks, dependencies, prerequisite work and capability gap resolutions required to deliver the target architecture.

Skills

Mobile architecture

React Native

Architectural design

Cross-platform strategy

Technical backlog

Job description

We’re on a mission to close the world’s tech skills gap.

We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster.

Since 2014, we’ve worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology.

That belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers.

Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world.

About you:

• You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value
• You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively
• You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning
• You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates
• You’re pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused
• You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow
• You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams

What you’ll bring to the table:

• Assess native mobile development versus cross-platform solutions, including React Native, against product strategy and future business goals.
• Evaluate options based on performance, scalability, maintainability, skills adoption, reusability, cost and industry benchmarks, recommending a preferred approach.
• Deliver a POC to validate feasibility, performance, platform constraints, integration complexity and architectural assumptions.
• Involve existing engineers in the POC to assess the learning curve, skills requirements and practical adoption challenges.
• Identify technical risks, unknowns, dependencies and capability gaps, documenting POC findings and the agreed route forward.
• Define and document the recommended architecture and core technology stack, including shared and platform-specific capabilities across web and mobile.
• Map shared and platform-specific components, covering APIs, business rules, identity, design systems, component libraries, release processes, quality engineering and observability.
• Produce a prioritised, high-level technical backlog outlining implementation tasks, dependencies, prerequisite work and capability gap resolutions required to deliver the target architecture.

Why join AND Digital?

We’re building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way.

Our model is designed to build belonging and connection: we’re organised into regional ‘Clubs’ of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole.

Our Practice Areas act as a ‘second home’ for our ANDis - a place where you can innovate and learn with like-minded experts who care deeply about their craft, support each other generously, and believe the best ideas come from collaboration, not hierarchy.

Our culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth-mindset. We are deeply client-centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves.

By joining AND, we’ll provide:

• 25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays
• Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice).
• Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you.
• Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash.
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection.
• Eye test + first pair of glasses.
• Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave.

AI Statement

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Equal Opportunities Statement

Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we’re committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We’re actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you need any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.