Mobile Lead

Company:

SimpleStudy is a consumer AI platform for exam preparation — "Duolingo for exam prep." Founded in Ireland, the company is post-seed (recently closed a funding round after fundraising in California), with 1.5M+ students across five primary markets: UK, Ireland, Brazil, South Africa, and Australia. ~40–50k new students join every week. The team is ~20 people, operating remotely with a Lisbon office.

Notable investors include the first investors of Facebook and Revolut, and board members of Stripe and Intercom (recently sold to Salesforce for $3.6B). The company is lean, product-obsessed, and deliberately not a typical education company — it's built consumer-first, with a heavy PLG and A/B testing culture.

Responsibilities and key results:

• Own the React Native app end-to-end — architecture, performance, release process, and roadmap — without needing the problem framed in advance

• Lead and mentor the two existing engineers already supporting mobile, setting technical direction and raising the bar for mobile craft

• Partner directly with Affan on engineering strategy and with Oisin on product direction where mobile intersects with growth, onboarding, and retention

• Drive native-feel polish: smooth animations, responsive interactions, platform-specific conventions (iOS/Android)

• Work in a PLG/A/B testing environment — ship features, instrument, measure impact, iterate fast

• Own app store presence and release cadence — versioning, store optimization, crash/performance monitoring

• Potentially help grow a dedicated mobile team as the app becomes a bigger part of the business

Requirements:

• Proficiency in Typescript

• Strong experience with React Native

• Proven experience building and shipping consumer-grade mobile applications.

• Familiarity with common mobile tools and libraries (e.g., Expo, Firebase, push notifications, app store deployment).

• Experience with Tailwind, TanStack Query, React Native Reanimated and Jotai (or Zustand/Redux)

• Experience with leading and managing test teams

• Bonus: iOS development (Swift)

• Bonus: Android development (Kotlin)

Conditions:

• Remote in Europe (preference: Western/continental Europe)

• Portugal relocation sponsorship possible

• Salary: no fixed budget. Flexible.

• Stock options: yes

• Contract type: full-time employment, independent contractor

• Tech Stack: Node.js, React.js, React Native, Next.js, Nest.js, Expo, Prisma, Tailwind, AWS