About this role
Company Description
We are looking for a Team Lead React Native Engineer with strong English communication skills, a hands-on mindset, and proven leadership experience to join our mobile team and drive the next stage of our React Native app for iOS and Android.
You will lead a team of mobile engineers while staying close to the code: shaping architecture, improving quality and performance, and collaborating with product, design, and backend teams to deliver great user value.
Our offer:
- A fully remote position with flexible working hours
- Modern tech stack and well-established development standards
- Clear and regular feedback cycles
- An open-minded, experienced team that values clean code, collaboration, and product quality
- Learn more about how we work: https://auto1.tech
Job Description
- Lead and grow the React Native team: set clear expectations, support individual development, mentor through code reviews/pairing, and provide actionable feedback.
- Own mobile domains end-to-end (features + technical areas): architecture and solution design, development, QA, shipping, monitoring, and long-term maintenance.
- Design, build, and maintain iOS/Android features in our React Native app, ensuring correctness, scalability, and a great user experience.
- Drive technical direction and architecture: lead discussions and make decisions that ensure long-term maintainability, performance, and reliability.
- Continuously improve app quality: speed, stability, UX, and engineering best practices through performance tuning and pragmatic, high-leverage improvements.
- Partner cross-functionally and support team scaling: collaborate with Product/Design/Backend to deliver business value, and contribute to hiring and onboarding strong mobile engineers.
Qualifications
- React Native expertise: 4+ years with JavaScript/TypeScript and 3+ years building and shipping production React Native apps for iOS & Android.
- Leadership & delivery ownership: 2+ years leading engineers (tech and/or people), accountable for team performance and delivery outcomes.
- Mobile best practices: strong fundamentals in navigation, animations, performance optimization, stability, and runtime debugging.
- State/data management: hands-on with state management (Redux/Zustand) and server state/data fetching (React Query / Apollo GraphQL).
- Production & releases: experienced with builds, rollout strategies, monitoring, hotfixes, and incident handling.
- Architecture + communication + mindset: able to own/evolve mobile architecture with pragmatic trade-offs; strong English communication; proactive, can-do, and coaching/mentoring oriented.
Additional Information
Contact
Marija Dimitrova
At AUTO1 Group we live an open culture, believe in direct communication, and value diversity. We welcome every applicant; regardless of gender, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual identity, disability, or any other non-merit factor.
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Other facts
About AUTO1 Group
Founded in 2012, AUTO1 Group is Europe’s leading digital automotive platform for buying, selling, and financing used cars. By leveraging technology and data, we are maximizing value for consumers and partner dealers in Europe across three brands: wirkaufendeinauto.de, Autohero and AUTO1.com. With wirkaufendeinauto.de and its sister brands, we offer consumers a fast and easy way to sell their cars. Our Retail brand Autohero makes choosing, buying, and financing high-quality used cars easy and stress-free. AUTO1.com is Europe’s largest wholesale trading platform for car dealers, supporting them in growing their businesses. We operate in over 30 countries, employed 6,300 people at the end of 2024, generated revenue of EUR 6.3 billion and sold 690,000 cars in 2024. We went public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in February 2021 and are part of the MDAX (Mid-cap German stock market index).
Join us by checking out our open positions:
AUTO1 Group / AUTO1.com
auto1-group.com/careers/
Autohero
careers.autohero.com
wirkaufendeinauto.de and its sister brands
karriere.wirkaufendeinauto.de
What you'll do
- Lead and grow the React Native team while owning mobile domains end-to-end, including architecture, development, and long-term maintenance. Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver business value and continuously improve app quality.
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