Lead Mobile Engineer

At Aspire, we’re more than just a FinTech company—we’re the leading all-in-one financial operating system built to empower the world’s innovators and entrepreneurs. We are on a mission to reinvent business finance, empowering startups and businesses to realise their full potential.

Founded in 2018, Aspire has raised over USD 300M+ across equity and debt from world-class investors. In 2023, we successfully closed an oversubscribed USD 100 million Series C equity round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Ventures with participation of Tencent, Paypal Ventures, LGT Capital Partners, Picus Capital and MassMutual Ventures. To power our solutions, we have partnered with some of the best companies in the world such as Visa and Wise and empowered more than 50,000 businesses using our suite of products.

Aspire has consistently been recognized for excellence, earning Best Employer and Startup of the Year by the Asia FinTech Awards in 2022 and 2023, ranked as LinkedIn’s Top Startup in Singapore, and listed on CB Insights’ Top 100 Global Fintech in 2023 and 2024.

You will be amazed by the energy and experience of our team! Aspire serves as an environment for you to innovate and drive change with our team of ex-entrepreneurs, ex-founders, and high-achievers with international and diverse backgrounds.

Are you a top talent who is passionate about entrepreneurship? Join our rapidly growing team to make an impact in the fintech space! 

About the role:
We are hiring a Lead Mobile Engineer/Architect who has experience in React Native to build the global fintech product.

What will you be doing?

• Lead the architecture and delivery of React Native apps across iOS and Android
• Define and evolve the long-term mobile architecture roadmap aligned with product scalability and future tech stack upgrades
• Define and drive codebase modularization to enable scalable development across squads
• Own and evolve the mobile design system, ensuring consistency and developer velocity
• Establish and enforce engineering standards across teams (linting, structure, analytics, OTA, CI/CD)
• Enhance and manage EAS pipelines (build, OTA, app store release, prebuild hooks)
• Continuously optimize app performance, like app start time, response time, RAM usage, bundle size, ANRs 
• Champion mobile security best practices: secure storage, root detection, API protection, obfuscation
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, backend, infra, and QA to ship reliable features in a fast-paced, cross-platform fintech environment
• Provide hands-on coding, mentorship, and high-quality code reviews
• Diagnose and fix bugs and bottlenecks to maintain native-quality performance
• Stay current on mobile trends and best practices and bring learnings into the team

 We would love to get to know you if you have the following: 

• 7–10 years of experience, including 3+ years leading or architecting mobile solutions
• Deep React Native expertise, including real-world use of Expo and EAS (build, OTA, submit, prebuild)
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript, with ES6+ fluency
• Experience building and maintaining a design system for mobile (e.g., using Restyle, NativeBase, custom components)
• Proven track record in codebase modularization and app-layer architectural standards
• Proficiency in native tooling (Xcode, Gradle) and OTA/versioning strategies
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, monorepos, build caching, and environment configs
• Demonstrated ability to improve mobile performance and stability using tools like Flipper, Firebase, Sentry, including instrumentation and proactive monitoring strategies
• Strong grasp of mobile security, especially in fintech/sensitive domains
• Experience with Git, agile methodologies, code review, and automated testing (unit/integration)
• Experience leading engineering across multiple squads/Pods or geographies is a plus
• Comfort working in high-growth, high-ownership environments with evolving requirements
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills

What we offer

• Uncapped flexible annual leave.
• Hybrid work arrangement. 
• Training subsidy for your professional growth.
• Wellness benefit.
• Team bonding budget to foster collaboration and sense of belonging.
• Flexibility to work from anywhere (for up to 90 days per annum).
• Culture is Key: We always strive to cultivate a special culture that brings special talents together - You can learn more about our culture on our careers site and LinkedIn Life page.
  

Equal Opportunity Statement 

Aspire is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by applicable laws. 

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