Mobile Engineer - React Native (Contract)

We're hiring a React Native engineer to build a mobile app for a large regulated UK organisation. It's used at scale, so dependable, accessible mobile matters a lot here.

What you'll do:

Build and ship a cross-platform app in React Native and TypeScript.

Deliver for both iOS and Android.

Keep accessibility front of mind throughout.

Work with backend and design to ship features end to end.

What we're looking for:

Strong React Native and TypeScript.

Proven experience shipping apps to the App Store and Play Store.

Good grasp of mobile accessibility.

Solid understanding of mobile performance and testing.

Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot as part of your everyday workflow.

Bonus points for financial services or regulated-app experience.

About hedgehog lab:

We're hedgehog lab, a digital product and engineering consultancy. For nearly 20 years we've embedded engineers inside the teams of well-known organisations in regulated, high-trust sectors, from financial services to the public sector.

We're a certified B Corp.

We're also serious about AI-assisted engineering. We've built our own agentic tooling and cut time-to-merge by around 60% on recent work, and our people get to use that on real projects.

The details:

Contract, outside IR35.

3 to 6 months, with strong potential to extend.

Hybrid. You'll work from the client's London, Bristol or Edinburgh office a couple of times a week.

Apply below and I'll get back to you.