About the Role
Join Zapp and take full lifecycle ownership of the apps our customers use every day. We're building a world-class experience across iOS, Android, and web, and you'll help us get there. Quick commerce moves fast and lives in the real world. AI is changing how we build it. We need engineers who are curious, energetic, and thrive at the front line of both.
Responsibilities
- Build a world-class customer experience, developing mobile and web experiences in React Native and Expo across iOS, Android, and web.
- Integrate AI into daily work, sharing patterns that help the team move faster and learning from others.
- Lead AI integration into the product, setting direction on where AI creates customer value, prototyping bets, and bringing the team along.
- Own delivery end-to-end, including problem definition, solution design, shipping mobile work, writing backend code when necessary, and seeing features through to production.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and support shipped production code.
- Maintain app performance and trust by profiling performance, hardening release processes, and protecting production health.
- Set the technical direction, owning architecture, patterns, and standards for the mobile stack.
- Mentor and uplift team members.
Requirements
- Right to work in the UK and based in London.
- 10+ years of experience building production software across mobile, backend, frontend, or full-stack.
- Strong experience with React Native and Expo, with a track record in B2C apps on iOS and Android.
- Proficiency in TypeScript.
- Daily use of AI assistants in development workflows, with the ability to share effective patterns.
- Product-focused mindset, measuring work by customer impact.
- Solid understanding of mobile performance, app stability, release processes, and mobile security.
- Attention to detail and care for product craft and user experience.
- Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and driving progress without explicit direction.
- Experience with building automated tests.
- Strong execution skills, characterized by curiosity, energy, and a proactive approach.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a passion for knowledge sharing.
- Ability to act as a force multiplier, influencing other engineers through patterns, reviews, and mentorship.
Skills
- React Native
- Expo
- TypeScript
- AI tooling
- Mobile performance
- App stability
- Release processes
- Mobile security
- Automated testing
- NestJS
- GraphQL
- GCP
- DevOps
- Firestore
- Pub/Sub
- Cloud Run
- Firebase
- Native iOS
- Native Android
- Swift
- Kotlin
- React Native Web
- Quick commerce
- Logistics
- On-demand delivery
Location
- Nine Elms, London
Work Type
- Full time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Principal
Salary/Compensations
- £135,000 – £175,000 base salary, depending on experience.
Benefits
- Equity package, depending on experience.
- 25 days of holiday per year, plus all bank holidays.
- Private health insurance.
- Extended sick pay and maternity or paternity leave.
- Cycle to work scheme.
About the Company
- Zapp is building the future of convenience with a full stack approach to on-demand essential items, 24/7, delivered in minutes.
- Customer obsession is at the heart of everything we do.
- We are relentlessly focused on delighting our customers.
- Backed by leading investors, with team experience from Amazon, Deliveroo, Tesco, Stuart, and Just Eat.
- We are an AI-first company, building intelligent systems from AI-assisted development to LLM-powered features.
- We expect every engineer to embrace and shape how AI changes what and how we ship.
