React Native, Expo, iOS + Android, Product Craft
Sydney CBD, 5 days in office
$170k + super + bonus
Big Wave Digital, widely regarded as one of Sydney’s leading tech and digital recruitment specialists, is partnering with one of our favourite tech scale-ups.
This is a product-led business with real traction, real users, and serious momentum.
You will be working with a passionate, engaged, smart yet humble team that is building something meaningful and moving quickly.
This place is going places, and fast.
The question is simple, do you want to get on the Millennium Falcon, or watch it take off without you?
The role
This is a senior, hands-on React Native position focused on building and evolving high-quality mobile applications across both iOS and Android.
You will be working across the full mobile stack, contributing to UI development, performance, architecture, and overall product experience. The expectation is not just delivery, but elevation, improving how things are built, structured and scaled.
As Steve Jobs said, “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
That philosophy runs deep here.
What you’ll be doing
- Designing and building mobile applications using React Native, with strong exposure to Expo and its ecosystem
- Working across iOS and Android, ensuring consistency, performance and a native feel across both platforms
- Building clean, reusable components and scalable UI systems that support rapid iteration
- Translating product and design into intuitive, high-quality user experiences that make people say “wow” without even thinking about it
- Driving performance optimisation, smooth animations, responsiveness and stability across devices
- Working with APIs, state management and asynchronous data flows to create seamless app behaviour
- Identifying structural issues and technical debt, then solving them properly, not just patching
- Contributing to architecture decisions, navigation patterns and overall mobile system design
- Collaborating closely with product and design in a fast, iterative delivery environment
- Helping shape development standards, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies and release processes
Tech environment
- React Native at the core of mobile development
- Expo for builds, tooling, rapid iteration and deployment
- Deep consideration of iOS and Android platform differences, behaviours and UX expectations
- Component-driven UI architecture with a focus on scalability and reuse
- Strong focus on performance, rendering efficiency and smooth user interactions
- Modern state management patterns and API integration approaches
- CI/CD pipelines supporting continuous delivery to app stores
What they are looking for
- Strong commercial experience building and shipping mobile apps with React Native
- Hands-on experience with Expo across development, builds and releases
- A background in startup or scale-up environments where speed and ownership matter
- A developer who can solve problems but also step back and improve the system
- A strong eye for UI and UX, you care how things feel in the user’s hand
- Confidence across both iOS and Android environments
- A portfolio of apps you have built or contributed to, ideally live and in use
- Strong communication skills and the ability to contribute ideas, not just code
Why this role stands out
- You will be building products people actually use
- Real influence over mobile direction and engineering quality
- Fast pace, high ownership, low ego environment
- A genuinely good team, smart, collaborative and grounded
- Sydney CBD location, 5 days in the office
- $170k + super + bonus
If you are a senior React Native engineer who wants to build great products, work with a top team, and move at speed, this is a standout opportunity.