React Native - Technical Lead

Lead Mobile Engineer - Android & iOS, AI-Native Healthcare Apps

📍 Location: Hyderabad, India

📍 Work Type: Full-Time | On-site / Hybrid

📍 Experience: 5–7 Years

Role Overview

Lead design, development, and delivery of mobile apps across Android and iOS. Own architecture, quality, and mobile engineering practice. Integrate Voice AI, conversational AI, and real-time features into patient-facing healthcare applications.

Key Responsibilities

Mobile Architecture & Delivery

•    Lead architecture and development of native or cross-platform mobile apps (Android & iOS)

•    Set technical direction, coding standards, and best practices for mobile

•    Deliver performant, polished, accessible mobile experiences at scale

•    Own app release process: app store submissions, versioning, mobile CI/CD

AI & Real-Time Integration

•    Integrate Voice AI, conversational AI, and LLM-powered features into mobile

•    Build real-time patient engagement experiences (streaming, push, WebSockets)

•    Collaborate with backend, product, and design on cohesive AI experiences

Quality & SDLC

•    Monitor app performance, crashes, and user feedback; drive continuous improvement

•    Champion mobile SDLC practices: testing, CI/CD, code review, release management

•    Leverage AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code) to increase velocity

Leadership & Mentorship

•    Mentor and guide mobile engineers; conduct technical reviews

•    Own mobile engineering standards and drive architectural decisions

Requirements

•    5–7 years mobile development (Android & iOS)

•    Strong native expertise: Kotlin/Java (Android) and/or Swift (iOS)

•    OR cross-platform expertise: React Native or Flutter

•    Proven mobile architecture and technical decision leadership

•    Deep mobile performance, offline support, and security knowledge

•    Full app release lifecycle and store guidelines experience

•    Track record mentoring engineers and leading delivery

•    API integration and mobile-backend communication expertise

•    Strong ownership mindset and AI-first working style

Nice-to-Have

•    AI/LLM or conversational AI features in mobile apps

•    Video stack experience: streaming, recording, real-time communication (WebRTC)

•    Real-time/streaming and push notification systems at scale

•    Mobile open-source contributions or published apps at scale

•    Healthcare technology or health-tech startup experience

Why this opportunity?

•    Build infrastructure and products powering real-world healthcare AI

•    Work with AI-native engineering teams using cutting-edge tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)

•    Mission-driven impact — improve patient outcomes and save thousands of staff hours

•    High ownership, rapid learning, and significant career upside

•    Global collaboration across India and the US

•    Seed-stage growth — scale from Seed to Series A alongside the team

• Experience Level: 2+ Years
• Extensive iOS development experience (iOS SDK, XCode, Objective C, Swift)
• Excellent understanding of iOS UX/UI guidelines/best practices and the ability to engage with the creative team to deliver pragmatic solutions, balancing design, quality, and velocity, iOS app architecture and use of design patterns.
• Strong OO & Objective-C skills, with an appreciation for pragmatism and simplicity in code
• Good Communication Skills.

Responsibilities

·        Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform.

·        Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

·        Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

·        Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

·        Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

·        Support the whole application lifetime from idea through design, testing, release, and maintenance

·        Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Skills

·        Proficient with Swift and Cocoa Touch

·        Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.

·        Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

·        Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services

·        Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

·        Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools 

·        Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

·        Knack for benchmarking and optimization

·        Proficient understanding of code versioning tools source tree, git

·        Familiarity with continuous integration

·        Solid grasp of algorithms, memory management, object oriented programming, and MVC Design

Competencies

·        Excellent communication skills

·        Ability to co-ordinate with cross functional teams  

·        Should be a good Team player.

• Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform

• Experience is required in IOS

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

• Working experience in iOS development using Swift, RX Swift,

• Have published one or more iOS apps in the app store

• A deep familiarity with Objective-C and Cocoa Touch

• Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text

• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs

• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies

• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle

• working experience on Media streaming

• Working experience on Modular programming, RX Swift, Auto layout, Push Notification & Deep Linking.

• Overall Experience: 4-5 years.
• Relevant Experience: 2-3 years.
• Must have knowledge of web technologies: HTML5 CSS, JavaScript, React Native.
• Strong JavaScript fundamentals and ES6 knowledge, React Native / NodeJS, MVC, Design Patterns, REST APIs, Swagger, and AWSFamiliarity with state/data management libraries (Redux).
• Minimum 2 years relevant and real-time experience in React Native.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, BitBucket Technology agnostic and confidence to switch technology stacks as per requirement.
• Understanding of programming in general, code optimization, and best practices for software development.
• Understanding of Continuous Integration, and deployment.
• Knowledge of general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Experience in automated testing suites, like Jest/ Mocha/ Express, is a plus.
• Experience with Agile Development methodology.
• Familiar with App distribution Process for both iOS and Android.
• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Role 2-3 years of experience required.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Proficient in rendering components with Native APIs.
• Proficient in TypeScript, JavaScript, modern JavaScript, HTML.
• Proficient in one or more libraries (e. g. Redux, React Router, etc) for state managing and routing in addition to React.
• Proficient in using Git as a control system.

Hey 

We are looking for freelance Android Developers for our new startup. 

If you believe you are a developer who can follow all best practices and create quality apps, only then apply for this job. 

We can allow you to work on your desired time frames each week, but we are strict about deadlines. 

We expect you to be good at

- Managing rest services 
- Managing cache and permanent storage

- Preparing pixel perfect UI which is compatible with all screen sizes (designs will be given)

- Daily pushing your code using Git 

- Writing clean and understandable code

All the best!

We are building a new app in vernacular languages in the ed-tech domain. Looking for highly skilled React Native + Android frontend engineers to build the product with A player's team.

We are funded by a leading VC in the country.