Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native)

• Build and improve mobile experiences used across thousands of apps
• Help shape the platform, patterns, and practices behind high-quality releases
• Work on meaningful mobile engineering problems at real scale

Most mobile roles are about shipping features for a single app.
This one is about building and improving the platform those experiences run on.

We support 3,000+ white-label mobile apps across Apple and Google’s app stores, and we’re continuing to evolve how those apps are built, released, and maintained. That means solving mobile engineering problems that go well beyond day-to-day feature work — from performance and reliability to architecture, release quality, and platform consistency.

If you enjoy creating polished mobile experiences, solving meaningful technical challenges, and contributing to the systems that make high-quality delivery possible, this role gives you the space to do exactly that.

You’ll work on technical challenges that require both engineering depth and product thinking, building mobile experiences that directly affect how people engage with their communities.

Develop and enhance modern mobile app experiences across iOS and Android, contributing new features, usability improvements, and high-quality user interactions.

Help improve the foundations that support thousands of apps — including architecture, maintainability, performance, release confidence, and platform consistency.

Design and deliver robust, production-ready mobile software that performs well in the real world and creates measurable value for users and the business.

Contribute to technical discussions, code quality, testing practices, and continuous improvement across the mobile engineering environment.

Mobile engineers care about how apps are built, released, and maintained — not just what gets shipped. We believe great software comes from thoughtful engineers working together, not rigid processes. Engineers here are trusted to contribute ideas, improve systems, and help shape how we build. Here’s a snapshot of the environment you’ll be working in.

• React Native using JavaScript and/or TypeScript
• Mobile development across iOS and Android
• App store release processes across Apple App Store and Google Play
• CI/CD practices supporting frequent and reliable mobile releases
• Testing practices that improve release quality and confidence
• Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, QA, and backend engineering
• Monitoring, analytics, and crash reporting tooling in support of app quality
• A platform environment shaped by the demands of white-label apps at scale

You’re an engineer who enjoys building mobile products that last, improving app quality over time, and creating experiences people genuinely enjoy using.

• Strong proficiency in React Native development using JavaScript and/or TypeScript
• Experience building mobile applications in iOS, Android, or cross-platform frameworks
• Solid understanding of mobile app architecture
• Familiarity with app store release processes and mobile CI/CD practices
• Understanding of testing best practices for mobile apps

• Experience working with white-label apps and/or multi-tenant mobile platforms
• Experience with analytics, crash reporting, and monitoring tools
• Exposure to automated testing frameworks and release automation
• Familiarity with Apple and Google app store APIs

You’ll join a team working on mobile engineering at real scale.

This role sits in an environment where platform thinking matters — where the work is not just about shipping the next feature, but about improving how thousands of apps are built, released, and experienced by real users.

If you enjoy solving meaningful mobile engineering problems, care about quality and user experience, and want to help shape a platform that supports products people genuinely rely on, this is the role for you.

Pushpay is a high-growth New Zealand SaaS business that is spread between offices in Auckland, NZ and the United States. We help organisations and communities come together and stay connected through our suite of mobile apps, management software and giving technology. Our teams of Software Engineers, SRE’s, QA's, UX and Product Managers work closely together to deliver value to our customers as the leading provider of mobile apps and giving technology to churches, schools, and nonprofits.

We love our culture. If you join us, there will be lots of mutual respect, brainstorming, idea generations, blameless postmortems, brainfood learning sessions, and recognition for your accomplishments and impact on our product. You will be heard, your opinion understood, your input valued, and your knowledge respected as you work with a team of high-calibre people with a drive to do-it-well.

• Parental Leave: Our paid parental leave policy offers primary & secondary caregiver leave, and we also have no leave override for those returning to work after parental leave, meaning you'll be paid at your full rate for annual holidays. 
• Sick Leave: You'll automatically get 10 days sick leave per year upon starting (no 6 month wait period!)
• Advanced gear
• Healthy food & drink options
• Free annual flu shots
• Fun on and offsite social events and Friday in-office happy hour
• Volunteering options through our employee led Pushpay Cares program

Please note: To be considered for this vacancy you must have working rights for New Zealand.