Frontend Architect - React Native

Frontend Architect About the Role : The Client Company is building a media super-app bringing together video, audio, radio, micro-drama, news and commerce on a single platform. We're hiring a Frontend Architect to own the technical architecture and long-term technical direction for our entire frontend and mobile surface spanning our React Native consumer app, admin portal, CMS and shared design system. This is a foundational, individual-contributor technical leadership role. You will define how a single codebase and design system scales across six content and commerce verticals, setting the technical direction that the wider Frontend Engineering team builds against. Key Responsibilities : - Define and own the frontend/mobile technical architecture across the React Native app, Admin Portal, CMS and internal tools - Establish and evolve the shared Design System and component library used across all frontend surfaces - Set technical standards, code quality bars and architectural guardrails for the Frontend Engineering team - Make foundational technology decisions state management, navigation, module boundaries, build/release pipeline that keep engineers interchangeable across mobile, web and admin surfaces - Partner closely with the Backend Architect and Platform Engineer to define clean API contracts and integration patterns - Partner with the Tech Lead to translate architectural direction into a deliverable roadmap - Conduct architecture and code reviews for high-impact changes - Evaluate and introduce new frontend technologies and tools where they meaningfully improve velocity, performance or maintainability - Own frontend performance, scalability and technical debt strategy as the platform scales beyond Phase 1 Required Qualifications : - 810 years of frontend/mobile engineering experience, including at least 23 years in a formal architecture or staff/principal engineering capacity - Deep, hands-on expertise in React Native at production scale, plus modern React, JavaScript and TypeScript - Proven experience architecting frontend systems that serve multiple products or surfaces from a shared codebase or design system - Strong understanding of mobile app performance, state management patterns and cross-platform architecture trade-offs - Experience building or scaling a design system / component library - Comfortable operating as a high-impact individual contributor, leading through technical authority and influence - Excellent communication skills able to document and evangelize architectural decisions to engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike Preferred Qualifications : - Experience in a media, content or commerce super-app environment - Prior experience at a high-growth startup building 0?1 platforms - Familiarity with backend API design (GraphQL/REST) to enable strong full-stack architectural conversations - Experience with CI/CD, build performance optimization and release engineering for mobile apps