Tech Lead App

RITUALS; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff discount on Rituals products

Attractive bonus

Flexible working hours

Job summary

RITUALS in Amsterdam is searching for a Tech Lead App (React Native) to guide the technical direction of mobile applications for iOS and Android. This role involves hands-on technical leadership while overseeing architectural decisions, ensuring performance and seamless user experience.

The ideal candidate has over 6 years of experience, is comfortable working with React Native, and possesses strong communication skills. Join a team dedicated to shaping scalable technology solutions while enjoying benefits like personal growth opportunities and a flexible work environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with strong React Native expertise.
• Deep understanding of mobile architecture, state management, and performance optimisation.
• Experience shipping and maintaining production apps in App Store and Google Play.

Responsibilities

• Own and guide the technical direction of the React Native application(s).
• Make architectural decisions around navigation, state management, and performance.
• Mentor developers and support technical growth.

Skills

React Native expertise

Mobile architecture

TypeScript

Communication skills

Job description

Share your talents

As Tech Lead App (React Native), you shape the technical direction of our mobile applications across iOS and Android, ensuring a scalable, consistent and high‑performing app foundation within our digital ecosystem.

You connect product ambitions with robust mobile engineering solutions, ensuring that React Native applications, native modules, backend APIs, data flows, and third‑party services work together coherently to deliver seamless customer experiences across mobile platforms.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role. You are expected to be deeply embedded in the codebase while guiding architectural decisions across React Native structure, state management, performance, native integrations, and release workflows. You understand modern mobile engineering practices well enough to challenge, guide, review, and contribute directly when needed. In short: not only leading from design discussions, but also actively shaping implementation in the real product.

You are not a gatekeeper, but a facilitator of strong engineering practices, shared ownership, and continuous improvement within the mobile domain.

About the team

You will join the Digital Architecture & Technology team, a team that works across Digital to shape scalable, secure, and maintainable technology solutions. We partner closely with product teams, engineers, business stakeholders, and external technology partners across areas such as MarTech, Customer Relations and Content & Design.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and guide the technical direction of the React Native application(s).
• Make architectural decisions around navigation, state management, modules, performance, and native integrations.
• Ensure consistent patterns, coding standards, and best practices across the mobile codebase.
• Evaluate and integrate mobile‑specific frameworks, libraries, and native capabilities when beneficial.

• Mentor developers, support technical growth, and elevate mobile engineering maturity.
• Lead technical discussions, facilitate design reviews, and enable shared ownership within the team.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to align APIs, data structures, and contracts with mobile needs.
• Support QA/Test & Reliability in ensuring stable, well‑tested mobile releases.

• Drive high‑quality implementation and performance optimisation across iOS and Android.
• Oversee mobile CI/CD pipelines and release workflows.
• Help teams proactively manage technical debt, platform differences, device fragmentation, and edge cases.
• Safeguard accessibility, UX consistency, offline behaviour, and app resiliency.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with strong React Native expertise.
• Deep understanding of mobile architecture, state management, performance optimisation, and native bridging.
• Experience shipping and maintaining production apps in App Store and Google Play.
• Solid knowledge of TypeScript, modern React patterns, and mobile testing frameworks.
• Comfortable working with native iOS/Android code (Swift/Kotlin/Java) when required.
• Knowledge of mobile CI/CD, release automation, crash/error monitoring, and analytics solutions.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, able to guide decisions and align stakeholders.

What we expect from you

We're looking for someone who leads by example through clean code, clear thinking, and a calm, constructive way of working. Someone who naturally brings others along, rather than taking over decisions, and helps create real shared ownership within the team.

In mobile, you're comfortable with complexity. You make pragmatic choices around performance, device differences, UX constraints, and native quirks, always keeping the user and product in mind.

You help others understand the “why” behind decisions. Technical trade‑offs don’t stay hidden with you; you translate them clearly for both engineers and non‑technical partners, bringing alignment instead of confusion. You balance speed with sustainability. You care about delivering today, but not at the expense of tomorrow's stability or maintainability. And you stay curious. You follow how React Native and the wider mobile ecosystem evolves, and you take time to evaluate what’s genuinely valuable, not just what’s new.

Location and Working Conditions

At Rituals, we believe in the power of connection: with ourselves, each other, and the world around us. That is why we work 80% from the office (typically four days per week) and 20% from home. Together, we bring our brand philosophy to life by transforming everyday routines into meaningful moments.

Benefits of working at Rituals

• Unique opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Staff discount on Rituals products.
• Attractive bonus.
• Flexible working hours tailored to your personal rhythm.
• Company & team events.