Senior React Native Engineer

Salary: £36,000 - 76,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for a Senior React Native Engineer to help build and evolve our Digital Design System implementation for React Native.
• We value prior design system experience, but it is not required.
• We are most interested in strong platform engineers who enjoy building shared foundations used by many teams.
• We are looking for someone with senior engineering craft, including architectural judgment, code review, mentoring, pragmatic delivery, technical clarity, and high-quality communication.
• We need experience building, maintaining, and evolving React Native platform components with clear APIs, strong test coverage, accessibility support, and release discipline.
• We need the ability to translate design intent, tokens, component states, and interaction guidance into production-ready React Native implementation.
• We need someone who can improve developer experience through documentation, examples, onboarding, contribution guidance, support, and migration tooling.
• We need someone who can collaborate with design, accessibility, product engineering, and platform peers across iOS, Android, React Native, and Web.
• We value responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools where they improve quality, speed, consistency, or developer self-service.
• We need the ability to make documentation and component metadata more useful to humans and AI agents through MCP-ready context, examples, and clear constraints.

Responsibilities:

• Create reusable components.
• Improve developer tooling and documentation.
• Support consuming teams.
• Help shape modern design-to-development workflows using Figma, MCP integrations, agentic cloud workflows, and AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Build, maintain, and evolve our DDS platform components for React Native.
• Translate DDS design intent, tokens, component states, and interaction guidance into production-ready React Native implementation.
• Collaborate with design, accessibility, product engineering, and platform peers to keep our DDS implementation aligned across iOS, Android, React Native, and Web.
• Lead through senior engineering craft, including architectural judgment, code review, mentoring, pragmatic delivery, technical clarity, and high-quality communication.

Technologies:

• AI
• AI Agents
• Android
• Cloud
• Figma
• Support
• MCP
• Mobile
• Network
• REST
• React
• React Native
• Web
• iOS
• UX UI Design

More:

We are Tesco, known as a supermarket, technology company, and for our award-winning mobile network. Our colleagues work to help make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues, and communities. We offer a hybrid working pattern where you spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We support flexible working conversations and provide an inclusive recruitment process as an accredited Disability Confident Leader. Our colleague benefits package includes an annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary, holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day and Bank holidays, private medical insurance, maternity, adoption, and paternity leave, a free 24/7 virtual GP service, and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family. We also offer relocation help, learning opportunities through certified technical training and learning platforms such as Udemy, Pluralsight, and OReilly, and varied and exciting projects with strong career development opportunities.

last updated 36 week of 2026