The Associate React Native Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining high‑quality mobile applications across Davies’ digital product ecosystem. As a key member of a cross‑functional Agile delivery squad, the role develops performant, intuitive, and accessible mobile experiences using React Native, TypeScript, and modern mobile development practices. Working closely with Product Owners, UX/UI Designers, Backend Engineers, Architects, and QA teams, the React Native Engineer ensures that mobile interfaces are robust, secure, scalable, and aligned with broader engineering and design standards. The role contributes to mobile architecture decisions, promotes engineering quality and best practices, and helps shape Davies’ approach to delivering world‑class mobile applications. This position is ideal for an engineer with strong mobile development fundamentals, deep knowledge of React Native, and a passion for delivering seamless mobile experiences that drive value for customers and internal users.
Mobile Application Development
- Build high‑quality React Native applications using React Native, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern mobile frameworks.
- Develop reusable, maintainable, and testable UI components for iOS and Android platforms.
- Ensure mobile interfaces adhere to performance, accessibility, and responsiveness standards.
- Write clean, secure, and well‑structured code following engineering best practices (SOLID, DRY, component isolation, secure‑by‑default).
- Utilise mobile tooling including Metro, Redux/Zustand, React Query, and platform‑specific modules.
- Implement mobile‑specific patterns such as gestures, animations, and native module integration.
UI/UX Collaboration
- Work closely with UX/UI designers to translate mobile wireframes, prototypes, and journeys into fully functioning interfaces.
- Advocate for mobile‑first and user‑centred design throughout the development process.
- Ensure mobile experiences are consistent with broader design system standards.
Quality Engineering & Testing
- Apply mobile‑focused testing practices including unit, integration, component, and automated end‑to‑end tests (e.g., Jest, React Native Testing Library, Detox/Appium).
- Support CI/CD pipelines for mobile builds, testing, and deployment through tools like GitHub Actions, App Center, or similar.
- Conduct code reviews to maintain consistency, reliability, and engineering standards across the mobile codebase.
- Troubleshoot issues across devices, OS versions, and network conditions.
Agile Collaboration & Delivery
- Work within Agile environments (Scrum/Kanban), actively participating in stand‑ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
- Collaborate with backend, QA, and product teams to deliver high‑quality increments every sprint. Provide accurate estimations and help break down epics into actionable, deliverable stories.
- Contribute to continuous flow of delivery, raising risks and blockers early.
Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Stay current with the latest React Native releases, mobile patterns, device APIs, and industry standards.
- Suggest and implement improvements that enhance performance, maintainability, developer experience, or user satisfaction.
- Contribute to shared component libraries, development tooling, and engineering standards.
- Explore new technologies, native modules, and capabilities (e.g., biometrics, push notifications, offline storage).
We are a specialist professional services and technology firm, working in partnership with leading insurance, highly regulated and global businesses.
We help our clients to manage risk, operate their core business processes, transform and grow. We deliver professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation & risk, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management.
Our global team of more than 8,000 professionals operate across ten countries, including the UK & the U.S. Over the past ten years Davies has grown its annual revenues more than 20-fold, investing heavily in research & development, innovation & automation, colleague development, and client service. Today the group serves more than 1,500 insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients.
