Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native)

Why Recharge

At Recharge, we’re making prepaid easy—for everyone, everywhere. Whether it’s topping up your mobile, sending gaming credit, or grabbing a gift card, our platform gives people instant access to digital prepaid payment products across 180+ countries. We’re already working with thousands of brands, have passed 2 million app downloads, and are on our way to €1b in sales. As a profitable scale-up with big ambitions: new markets, new products, and new ways to pay. And we’re just getting started.

Our team of 150+ people from 30+ nationalities are building something exciting—and we’re looking for curious, driven people to help us shape what’s next. Sound like you? Come join the journey.

The Role 💡

Recharge is looking for an ambitious and experienced Senior or Staff Mobile Apps Engineer to join our historic transformation as we build a new platform from the ground up. You will work on expanding our strategic future of the company: cross-platform mobile apps. We’re evolving into a product and technology-led organisation, serving millions of users around the globe and processing more than $500m in GMV. This is a pivotal moment to define your career in a business that is placing product and engineering at the centre of its differentiation strategy.

What will I do? 🤔

• Driving technical design and best practices among the engineering group along with Principal Engineers, while partnering with Product Management and Design
• Developing and maintaining high-quality, reliable software with a strong focus on automation and cloud solutions
• Handling complex tasks independently, ensuring consistent delivery with minimal issues
• Enhancing and enforcing Recharge's standard frameworks and policies, fostering understanding and adoption across the team
• Conducting code reviews and pair programming to support the production of clean, quality code
• Advocating and implementing DevOps practices to streamline the product development lifecycle
• Participating in the support rota for out-of-hours technical assistance
• Contributing to and leading product group objectives, mentoring less experienced engineers, and fostering a culture of learning and improvement
• Focusing on software development metrics, continuously seeking improvement
• Actively participating in product planning, roadmap development, and promoting innovative approaches

What You Have 💪🏻

• Strong expertise in React Native, with deep experience building performant cross-platform mobile applications released on Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
• Ability to contribute to system architecture and design decisions, while applying industry best practices to build scalable, high-performance, and maintainable mobile applications.
• Expertise in state management and data handling on the front end, including building robust features with Redux and consuming GraphQL APIs.
• Familiarity with back-end development (Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL) to effectively integrate with server-side services.
• Quality-focused mindset – writing clean, maintainable code and ensuring thorough testing using frameworks like Jest (unit tests) and Maestro (end-to-end UI tests).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and mobile DevOps, including GitHub Actions for automated builds, code-push for over-the-air updates, and Firebase Analytics for monitoring app performance and user engagement.
• Demonstrated mentorship skills – guiding and coaching junior developers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
• Understanding of native mobile development for iOS/Android (Swift/Objective-C and Kotlin/Java) to handle occasional platform-specific code or debugging tasks.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a self-sufficient approach to problem-solving and delivering features end-to-end.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of working closely with a Staff Engineer (Tech Lead), product managers, and designers to deliver great products.
• Enthusiasm for the FinTech domain – experience or interest in areas like mobile top-ups, digital gift cards, or prepaid credit services, enabling you to quickly grasp our product context and user needs.

What we offer

• 30 days of holiday, a great pension scheme, and one of the best relocation packages in Amsterdam
• Flexible working hours and an office overlooking the Amstel
• Macbook Pro (13”or 15”)
• Budget for noise-cancelling headphones, travel to and from the office, opportunities to work-from-home and self-learning
• Free healthy breakfast, lunch and snacks by our in-house chef
• Unlimited access to mental health support by certified psychologists via OpenUp
• Free Dutch classes to help out with daily life in the Netherlands
• Regular parties, celebrations and other events