Dehradun's Sahastradhara Road office is hiring a Lead React Native Developer, full-time and on-site. This isn't an entry point into mobile development. It's a seat for someone who's already shipped apps that real users depend on and wants to own that responsibility for a whole team, not just a single codebase. The mobile team reports into a broader engineering group, but day-to-day, this lead role sets the technical direction for everything mobile. Salary for the position ranges up to ₹148,500 per month, reflecting both the seniority bar and on-site expectations.
What Gets You in the Door
A bachelor's degree is the baseline here, most commonly in computer science or information technology, though what actually gets a candidate shortlisted is the portfolio: apps you've built and shipped, ideally ones still live on the App Store or Play Store today. Eleven years of hands-on mobile development experience is expected for this seat, with a meaningful chunk of that spent specifically in React Native rather than native-only work. Deep familiarity with how Android and iOS platform guidelines differ in practice matters more here than it would in a junior role, since a lead is the one catching platform-specific gaps before they reach QA. A candidate from a predominantly native background, with Swift or Kotlin and little React Native exposure, would need to make a strong case that the transition wouldn't slow the team down. That case usually comes down to a track record of quickly picking up new frameworks, not just a stated willingness to learn.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and ongoing build of apps across Android and iOS, making the calls on structure that a junior developer wouldn't be positioned to make alone.
- Wire up APIs and third-party services, and just as importantly, decide when a third-party dependency is worth the maintenance cost it brings.
- Before anything ships, put it through its paces on a real spread of hardware: the older Android phone with a cracked screen, the iPhone still running two OS versions behind, since that's where the ugly bugs actually surface.
- Review code from the rest of the mobile team and mentor developers who are earlier in their careers.
- Weigh in on hiring for the mobile team, since a lead's read on a candidate's actual coding ability tends to matter more than a generic interview scorecard.
One recent example: a routine update passed every internal test, then started crashing on launch on a specific batch of older Android devices due to a native module version mismatch that nobody had flagged in code review. Untangling exactly that kind of platform-specific mess, fast, is a normal Tuesday for whoever holds this seat. Beyond firefighting like that, a good chunk of the week goes into longer-horizon decisions: which parts of the app justify a full rewrite, which technical debt can wait another quarter, and where the team's time is genuinely best spent.
Skills This Role Needs
- Deep, current React Native expertise, not just familiarity from a project two years ago.
- Strong JavaScript fundamentals underneath the framework itself.
- Comfort integrating REST APIs, including handling the messy edge cases that documentation never quite covers.
- A real eye for mobile UI design, enough to push back on a design handoff that won't actually work on a smaller screen.
- Git, used well past the basics, since a lead is often the one untangling a merge conflict nobody else wants to touch.
Someone strong on paper but weak in one of these areas isn't automatically ruled out, but the fit gets discussed openly in the interview rather than glossed over.
TypeScript experience is a strong plus, as is any hands-on work bridging native modules in Swift or Kotlin when React Native's built-in components don't cover something a client needs. Familiarity with a CI/CD pipeline built around Fastlane or App Center speeds up onboarding considerably, and prior experience submitting an app through the App Store or Play Store review process is worth mentioning, even if it wasn't your main responsibility at the time. Exposure to a state management library like Redux or MobX rounds things out well, though at this seniority level, a lead who's worked without one and understands exactly why a project didn't need it is just as credible a signal.
Compensation and Benefits
- A monthly salary of ₹148,500, reflecting the seniority and leadership scope of the role.
- Health insurance.
- Paid time off.
- Performance-linked bonuses tied to shipped work and team outcomes, not just individual output.
- Relocation assistance and accommodation support for candidates moving to Dehradun, since the role is on-site only.
The salary here sits well above what a mid-level mobile role in the same city would pay, which tracks with the years of experience expected and the team-leadership responsibilities layered on top of the coding itself.
The Team and the City
The mobile team here is small enough that this lead role isn't a management title in name only. Expect to still be writing code most days, alongside the architecture calls and mentoring. This role was posted through Naukri Mitra. Dehradun's tech scene has grown steadily over the past several years, even though it's still a fraction the size of Bangalore's or Pune's. Sahastradhara Road itself sits close enough to central Dehradun that most team members commute in under thirty minutes, and the surrounding area has enough housing options that relocating candidates generally don't struggle to find a place quickly. For someone tired of a two-hour commute in a larger metro, that shorter distance becomes a genuine quality-of-life difference rather than a minor convenience.
How to Apply
Send a resume along with links to published apps you've led or built a significant part of, plus a short note on your specific role in each. Candidates who move forward should expect a technical conversation centered on a real architecture decision, followed by a discussion of how you've mentored or led other developers in the past. A brief take-home exercise may follow for candidates who clear that stage, focused on reviewing a small piece of existing React Native code rather than building something from scratch. There's no fixed deadline on this one; it stays open until the right person is found.
