Staff Frontend Engineer (React Native)

AirAsia MOVE is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer (React Native) to lead the technical architecture, scalability, performance, and reliability of our Super App platform. As a senior Individual Contributor (IC), you will drive architectural decisions across mobile applications; collaborate closely with backend, cloud, security, trust, and product teams; and help deliver seamless travel and payment experiences to millions of users. This role requires deep expertise in React Native, mobile system architecture, performance optimization, deployment strategies, and building large-scale consumer-facing applications.
The core responsibilities for the job include the following:
Architecture and Technical Leadership:
Define and evolve the frontend architecture strategy for AirAsia's Super App ecosystem.
Design scalable, maintainable, and high-performing React Native applications.
Drive system architecture discussions involving mobile, backend, cloud, and platform engineering teams.
Establish engineering standards, coding practices, and architectural governance across teams.
Lead technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance for critical initiatives.
Performance and Scalability:
Optimize application performance, startup time, rendering efficiency, memory consumption, and network utilization.
Design solutions capable of supporting millions of users across multiple geographies.
Implement monitoring, observability, and performance measurement frameworks.
Drive initiatives to improve app stability, reliability, and user experience.
Cloud and Backend Collaboration:
Partner closely with backend and cloud engineering teams to design robust APIs and scalable services.
Contribute to end-to-end solution architecture spanning frontend, backend, and cloud platforms.
Ensure seamless integration between mobile applications and distributed backend systems.
Security, Quality, and Deployment:
Champion mobile security best practices and secure coding standards.
Drive security testing, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.
Establish automated testing, quality assurance, and release management practices.
Own CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, feature rollouts, and app store releases.
Analytics and Data:
Work closely with analytics teams to implement tracking, instrumentation, and user behavior measurement.
Enable data-driven decision-making through robust analytics frameworks.
Ensure accurate event tracking and performance metrics collection.
Cross-functional Collaboration:
Collaborate with Trust and Safety, Security, Product, Design, Backend, Cloud, and Platform teams.
Influence technical roadmaps and drive alignment across multiple engineering organizations.
Mentor engineers and elevate overall engineering excellence within the organization.
Requirements:
8-12 years of software engineering experience with at least 5/7+ years in React Native development.
Proven experience operating as a Senior or Staff-level Individual Contributor.
Strong expertise in React Native, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
Deep understanding of mobile application architecture and system design principles.
Experience building and scaling high-traffic consumer applications.
Strong knowledge of performance optimization and mobile engineering best practices.
Experience integrating mobile applications with backend services, APIs, and cloud-native platforms.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD, deployment automation, and release management.
Strong understanding of mobile security, authentication, authorization, and security testing.
Experience implementing analytics and event-tracking frameworks.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working on Super Apps, payments, e-commerce, or travel platforms.
Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Familiarity with native Android (Kotlin) and iOS (Swift) development.
Experience with observability, monitoring, crash analytics, and performance tooling.
Experience working in globally distributed engineering teams.

Experience
8-12 yrs