React Native Technical Lead Engineer at New Relic in Charlotte, NC

• Understand your team’s workflows, constraints, roles, ceremonies, purpose, and needs from the business.
• Familiarize yourself with your team's existing XCFramework and Android agent SDKs.
• Establish rapport with your teammates and language instrumentation engineers.
• Begin shaping a plan and identify dependencies for a React Native solution.
• Participate in interviewing your future teammates as we grow the team.

In your first three months, you will:

• Gain a deeper understanding of how your team fits into the larger organization and work closely with peers, solutions architects and product management.
• Begin mentoring engineers on your team and support their technical development in React Native concepts.
• Participate in internal and external customer interviews to better understand the fundamental problems we’ll solve with these new products to inform your architectural decisions and ultimate product direction.
• Lead the design and development of a new React Native offering.

In your first six months, you will:

• Add to the strategy and vision for your team by identifying and planning work based on your understanding of customer needs.
• Identify and work on areas to further your career by growing as an engineer, a leader, and a person.
• Find and act on opportunities to have an impact beyond your team, likely within the OpenTelemetry community helping move forward specifications and implementation within the mobile space.
• Ship a React Native offering and start balancing operational needs with new feature development.

Your Qualifications

Must Have:

• 5+ years of mobile software engineering experience building, shipping, and monitoring apps deployed at scale in both iOS (Objective-C preferred) and Android (Kotlin preferred), using the latest standard development environments
• 2+ years of recent experience mobile development using cross platform hybrid frameworks such as React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Cordova or the like
• Solid understanding of mobile build, packaging and dependency management systems such as Gradle and CocoaPods
• Strong experience working with C++, JavaScript and React, especially around error handling, crash analytics and building framework bridges.
• Strong experience designing and leveraging APIs
• Experience using commercial or open source tools and services to monitor the behavior and operation of mobile apps
• An aptitude to learn new technologies swiftly and “just in time”

Nice to Have:

• Previous use of, or interest in mobile monitoring tools such as Firebase Performance Monitoring or Cloudflare Mobile SDK
• Experience with or interest in contributing to and managing Open Source projects, specifically OpenTelemetry, or other open observability APIs and standards