Hours:
35 hours per week, Hybrid working - 2 days a week in the office.
Closing Date:
Thu, 31 Jul 2025
React Native Software Engineer
We’re on the lookout for curious React Native Developers to help shape and deliver the mobile experiences that support Skipton Building Society’s digital transformation. You’ll be part of a multidisciplinary team building and evolving mobile apps that enable members to manage their finances with ease and confidence.
This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to an evolving platform with modern tools and a supportive engineering culture.
About Skipton Building Society
At Skipton Building Society, we’re a mutual organisation owned by our members and driven by putting people at the heart of everything we do. We believe success comes from great people and treating everyone as individuals. Our values; Trust, Ownership, and One Team guide how we work together and deliver exceptional service to our customers
This role will support our journey of continual improvement by partnering with all business departments, you will help create and maintain the most efficient internal system possible.

We love to experiment and play around with the tools, techniques, and technologies we have available to us to improve how we deliver solutions. As a software engineer, you can expect to be involved in:

• Engineering Software solutions – working with prototypes and proof of concepts.
• Producing accessible, responsive, rich front-end UI using Typescript in the React Native.
• Integrating with cloud services and back-end systems (ie, API’s, IDAM).
• Working in multidisciplinary engineering teams across the whole software development life cycle.

We look for people who are passionate around solving problems through innovation and engineering practices. You’ll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner with stakeholders to stay focused on common goals.
Our Ideal Candidate:

Will have:

• 3+ years’ experience building apps with React Native
• Proficiency in TypeScript (JavaScript also valued)
• Experience consuming REST APIs in mobile apps
• Solid understanding version control such as Git
• Solid experience with testing React applications using JEST and vitest
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• A proactive, self-directed approach to engineering challenges

Would be great, but not essential if you also had:

• Experience in native mobile development for either in Android or iOS platforms.
• Familiarity with playwright end to end testing.
• Experience using Storybook or component-driven development practices.
• Familiarity with mobile performance optimisation and accessibility standards.
• Exposure to Azure (or other cloud services like AWS)
• Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe)
• Awareness of TDD/BDD workflows

Will be:

• Curious about technology and adaptable to new technologies.
• Agile-minded, optimistic, passionate, and pragmatic about delivering valuable software to customers.
• Someone who puts quality first and has a passion for good design and clean code.
• Willing to support colleagues, leveraging their experience & knowledge.

What’s In It For You?
Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space.

We have a range of other benefits available to you including;

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days.
• Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days.
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum).
• Colleague mortgage (conditions apply).
• Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car.
• A commitment to training and development.
• Private medical insurance for all our colleagues.
• 3 paid volunteering days per annum.
• Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available for you to join including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups.
• We care about your health and wellbeing – we provide a range of benefits that support this including cycle to work initiative and discounted gym membership.

Please refer the Job description for details