Senior React Native Mobile Developer

6-Month Contract | Sandton | Onsite
Rate: Up to R500 per hour
We are looking for an experienced
React Native Mobile Developer to join a high-performing technology environment within a leading financial services organisation.
This is a
6-month contract opportunity based onsite in Sandton and is suited to a strong mobile developer who has delivered
production-grade React Native applications end-to-end .
This is not a web-focused React role. We are specifically looking for candidates with solid, hands-on
React Native mobile development experience , including testing, build automation, application signing and deployment to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop, enhance and maintain production React Native mobile applications.
  • Build scalable, reliable and high-performing mobile features using React Native, TypeScript and Redux Toolkit .
  • Integrate mobile applications with REST APIs and backend services.
  • Manage application state, performance and the Redux lifecycle.
  • Develop and maintain automated unit, integration and end-to-end testing.
  • Support mobile CI/CD pipelines, automated builds and release processes.
  • Manage application signing, certificates and production releases.
  • Deploy and manage applications through App Store Connect, TestFlight and Google Play Console .
  • Work closely with engineering, product and technical teams within an Agile delivery environment.
  • Troubleshoot mobile-specific issues across iOS and Android platforms.

Essential Technical Skills

Candidates must have strong commercial experience with:
  • React Native 0.80+ 0.78+ will be considered
  • Expo
  • Redux Toolkit (RTK)
  • TypeScript / modern JavaScript
  • REST API integration
  • Mobile state management and performance optimisation

Testing

Hands-on experience with:
  • Jest
  • React Native Testing Library (RNTL)
  • Detox
  • Maestro

Mobile & Native Experience

Candidates should have a good understanding of:
  • Native iOS and Android integrations
  • Mobile application architecture
  • App lifecycle and performance
  • Production debugging and troubleshooting
Experience with
Swift and/or Kotlin will be advantageous.

DevOps & Mobile Delivery

Experience in the following will be highly advantageous:
  • CI/CD pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps or similar
  • Automated testing within deployment pipelines
  • Mobile build and release automation
  • App Store Connect
  • TestFlight
  • Google Play Console
  • App signing and certificate management
  • Production application publishing and release management

The Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will have
personally contributed to delivering React Native applications into production , rather than having only limited React Native exposure as part of a predominantly web-based React role.
You should be comfortable working across the full mobile delivery lifecycle:
Development Testing Build Pipeline Signing Release App Store / Play Store Deployment
  • Due to the nature of the environment, successful candidates will be required to undergo screening and must be able to obtain satisfactory:
  • Criminal clearance
  • Credit clearance
If you are an experienced React Native Developer with proven production mobile delivery experience and are available for a contract opportunity in Sandton, we would like to hear from you.
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