Who you are - 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a focus on technical leadership/engineering management and driving projects end-to-end - Deep expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript, with a strong foundation across the full stack - Proven track record of leading the architecture and successful delivery of large-scale React-Native mobile applications in a production environment - Experience working in AWS cloud environments, with a strong preference for familiarity with serverless architectures (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, AppSync) - Skilled in defining and delivering features from initial architecture and design through to release, testing, and production support - Comfortable stepping outside your core expertise to solve problems across the stack, from frontend to cloud infrastructure - Able to thrive in a highly skilled, fast-paced engineering team. In 2024, we shipped: - 99 mobile app releases (iOS and Android) - 443 API releases - 237 modelling backend releases - Proven ability to mentor engineers, support team growth, and guide complex projects from design to release - Comfortable making strategic technical decisions while enabling others to lead implementation - A strong advocate for modern engineering practices, including: - Iterative development, continuous deployment, and test automation - Knowledge sharing, pair programming, and collaborative design & development - Shared code ownership and cross-functional product team collaboration - Have delivered impactful work across the full stack—from mobile to backend services and cloud infrastructure - Thrive in autonomous roles, taking ownership without heavy direction - Communicate proactively, surfacing risks early and keeping stakeholders aligned - Have hands-on experience with SwiftUI or native mobile development - Are confident working with and improving CI/CD pipelines, release cycles, and deployment processes - Have experience with React Native at scale in performance-sensitive or offline-first applications - Have deep experience with AWS services and serverless architecture patterns - Are comfortable with Infrastructure as Code tooling like Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation - Have contributed to open-source communities—through code, issues, testing, or documentation - Have a personal interest in health, fitness, or sports technology - Embrace a fast-paced startup environment, adapting quickly to change ### What the job involves - We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in driving the technical success of our App Team at Runna - This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll work across multiple cross-functional product teams, providing architectural direction, ensuring engineering excellence, and enabling the successful delivery of features across our iOS (React-Native), Android (React-Native), and Apple Watch apps, as well as third-party integrations (Garmin, Strava, Coros, Fitbit, Suunto, etc) - You’ll partner closely with our CTO and founders, as well as product and design leads, to align technical strategy with company goals - You’ll be a multiplier for the engineering team—mentoring developers, improving processes, and guiding the evolution of our systems as we scale - Lead the architectural design and technical strategy across multiple product teams, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions - Drive the end-to-end delivery of key initiatives, working hands-on to build, test, and ship features across the full stack (mobile, backend, integrations) - Define and communicate cross-squad engineering strategy - Coach and support Tech Leads and engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and code reviews without creating bottlenecks - Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering Leads to define the best solutions for user experience, balancing speed, quality, and long-term technical goals - Connect squads and ensure smooth cross-team collaboration, driving quality, unblocking shared work, and resolving dependencies - Champion developer productivity by improving our CI/CD pipeline, tooling, and internal workflows to accelerate delivery and reduce friction - Own the release process and support a culture of reliable, continuous deployment—while enabling teams to ship confidently and independently - Track delivery across squads and ensure alignment with business goals - Maintain and grow a high-performing engineering culture based on ownership, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement - Contribute to code when it makes sense: unblocking teams, pairing for mentorship, prototyping, or driving quality through example - Frontend: - React Native (iOS and Android) - Typescript - GraphQL (Apollo Client) - Fastlane - SwiftUI (Apple Watch) - Maestro E2E tests - Backend: - Serverless (AWS) - Lambdas (NodeJS & Python) - AWS AppSync - DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, SageMaker - Snowflake - All the other good stuff: - Sentry - GitHub Actions - Intercom, Mixpanel - RevenueCat - App Store Connect / Play Store - Google Tag Manager ### The application process - Getting to Know You + Live Coding (45-minute video call, first 25 mins will be an introductory chat followed by two live coding exercises from ) - Take home technical task (max 1-2 hours to complete, or if you have something interesting you recently built and would like to showcase then that's perfectly OK) - 1.5-hour technical interview (the first half of the call will be used to discuss the take-home technical task from the previous stage and the second half will consist of system design and some general architecture/tech questions) - Meet the team (in-person chat with founder(s) and rest of the team) - Once the process is finished, we promise to let you know our decision as soon as possible - Please note, we are unable to accept any applications outside of Workable ### Benefits - Own a part of Runna: We want you to own a part of the company you're building. Everyone who joins Runna receives a generous stock options package - Grow with us: As one of our early hires, you'll have a unique opportunity to shape and influence Runna's product and culture from the beginning - Learn and develop: We work with all of the latest tools and technologies so you can learn at the cutting edge of product development - Team socials: We're a friendly bunch and like to make work-like fun, whether that's lunches and dinners or our bi-weekly team run - Paid vacation: We want people to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. Runna offers 25 vacation days + bank holidays - Tools: You'll receive all new equipment including a laptop, running watch of your choice, and anything else you need to do your best work - Get paid to Run(na): We have a dedicated hour block each week where you'll get paid to run! Whether you want to build up to your first 5k or do that tough intervals sessions it's up to you! - Enhanced family care: 3 months fully paid when you welcome a new Runna into the family, as well as fertility support & a host of other benefits