Senior React Native Developer

Role overview

As a Senior React Native Developer at Headway, you will be client- and user-focused while executing details of each project. This is a remote role embedded with an existing enterprise client as part of an integrated Headway + client delivery team, expected to be medium to long-term (potentially a year or more).

Responsibilities

• Communicate with clients during sprint planning, retros, and release demos
• Help monitor and evolve features as requirements change; route emergent discussions back to product priorities
• Manage client expectations and scope, ensuring the team builds the most valuable features first
• Set and communicate technical direction for the mobile codebase (patterns, standards, tradeoffs)
• Own architecture and technical planning for features end-to-end (mobile + API integration) and document decisions
• Proactively manage technical debt via refactoring proposals and incremental improvements
• Mentor through pair programming to raise team quality and consistency
• Work effectively within enterprise constraints (security/compliance, access controls, release gates, device/testing requirements)
• Collaborate with stakeholders across product, QA, backend, and platform teams to drive alignment and delivery
• Make pragmatic decisions optimized for maintainability, reliability, and incremental delivery
• Support team growth via “craft within context,” development critiques, and PR/QA reviews

Requirements / expectations

• Growth mindset; open to criticism and eager to learn and share knowledge
• Delivery-focused with the ability to be big-picture and detail-oriented
• Self-motivated, able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Outgoing and able to inspire colleagues and clients

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated ability to use data to guide priorities and set new directions