Sparta Global
Engineering Manager - React Native
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Role Summary
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team of approximately 67 engineers, working primarily with React Native. This is a hands-on leadership role, with approximately 70% of the focus on people management, team leadership, and delivery, and 30% remaining technically hands-on. You will be responsible for building and developing a high-performing engineering team, supporting technical decision-making, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality, scalable mobile applications.
The successful candidate will combine strong React Native engineering experience with proven experience building, managing, and developing engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of approximately 67 engineers.
- Build and grow effective engineering teams, supporting recruitment, onboarding, and team structure.
- Provide coaching, mentoring, regular feedback, and career development support to engineers.
- Take ownership of team performance, engagement, and ways of working.
- Work closely with engineering, product, and delivery stakeholders to plan and prioritize technical delivery.
- Provide technical leadership across React Native mobile applications.
- Remain approximately 30% hands-on, contributing to development, code reviews, technical problem-solving, and solution design.
- Support architectural and technical decision-making across mobile applications, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with engineering standards.
- Promote engineering best practices across areas such as clean code, automated testing, CI/CD, application performance, and software quality.
- Support effective integration between mobile applications, APIs, and wider backend services.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges and work with the team to resolve them.
- Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes, team capability, and technical standards.
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Required Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial mobile engineering experience using React Native.
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript and/or TypeScript.
- Previous experience as an Engineering Manager, Software Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, or similar technical leadership role.
- Proven experience building, growing, or shaping engineering teams.
- Experience managing and developing teams of software engineers, ideally teams of around 5-10 people.
- Strong people management skills, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
- Comfortable balancing technical involvement with broader management responsibilities.
- Strong understanding of modern mobile engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, code quality, and software design principles.
- Experience contributing to mobile architecture and engineering decision-making.
- Understanding of mobile application development and deployment across iOS and Android.
- Experience working with APIs and integrating mobile applications with backend services.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience working within Agile software development environments.
- Ability to create a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing engineering culture.
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