Technical Manager - Platform Services Mobile Foundations (React/React Native)

Location: Remote within Portugal; the role is only open to candidates in Portugal.

Company

hirify.global provides a workplace wellness platform connecting employees with fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep partners through one subscription.

What you will do

• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team building frontend and mobile platform foundations, SDKs, and integration services for push notifications, identity, and localization.
• Manage engineers, including hiring, performance management, career development, mentoring, and team empowerment.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of cross-functional platform initiatives, aligning frontend and mobile requirements with Backend-for-Frontend and core services.
• Lead technical and architectural decisions for React and React Native platforms, including code and design reviews.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, and consumer teams to align technical scope, roadmaps, and integration standards.
• Establish engineering practices for testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and developer experience.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing and leading engineering teams, including people management, hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Mandatory prior experience with React, React Native, and mobile architecture.
• Solid software engineering background with hands-on experience in modern frontend and mobile architecture.
• Experience leading technical projects from conception to deployment while balancing engineering quality and time-to-market.
• Understanding of distributed systems, modern mobile architectures, Micro Frontends, BFF with Node.js, RESTful APIs, and GraphQL.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, including roadmap execution, sprint planning, risk mitigation, and resource allocation.
• Strong communication skills in both Portuguese and English, with the ability to bridge technical details and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to foster an inclusive, collaborative culture and mentor developers.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within Portugal, with flexible scheduling aligned with time zones, team needs, and personal routines.
• Home-office equipment reimbursement and a monthly work allowance for working-from-home costs.
• Health insurance and a free hirify.global Gold membership with wellness resources and partner access.
• At least 25 paid vacation days per year, additional tenure-based days up to five, and annual holidays including a birthday holiday.
• 100% paid parental leave for all new parents, with extended leave and a part-time ramp-back period for birth parents.
• Learning platforms, interactive sessions, personalized development roadmaps, internal opportunities, and an inclusive culture focused on wellbeing and collaboration.