Mobile Engineer - React Native (Contract) at hedgehog lab, Edinburgh EH1 1BB, £Contract Rate

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.