Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native)

About the role

Build a better way to borrow

Fig is a Canadian fintech making personal lending simpler, faster, and more accessible for Canadians. We offer fully digital personal loans, helping customers apply in minutes and receive decisions quickly, without paperwork, branch visits, or long delays .

Since launching in 2023, we’ve grown quickly and earned recognition including Consumer Lender of the Year and FinTech Startup of the Year. We’re proud to be consistently ranked among Canada’s Best Workplaces, with a 4.8/5 Trustpilot rating from our customers.

Supported by Fairstone Bank of Canada and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, we combine deep lending expertise with the agility of a startup.

About the role Fig is expanding beyond lending and building a new generation of digital banking products. We're hiring a Senior Mobile Engineer, reporting to the Engineering Manager of our digital banking team, to build and own the Fig banking app on iOS and Android.

You're a React Native specialist with deep experience shipping production apps, from developer tooling through to release pipelines. You're comfortable across the stack in TypeScript, having built backend services and designed APIs for mobile clients.

Our core stack includes TypeScript, NestJS, React Native (Expo), React, PostgreSQL, and AWS. We use AI for software development and are moving toward more agentic ways of working. We want engineers who'll help shape how we get there.

We're a small team, so breadth matters. You'll work closely with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Operations, and help set the mobile patterns, tooling, and quality bar as we grow.

We're a small team, so breadth matters. You'll work closely with our backend engineers, our CISO, and our Risk and Compliance teams, and help set the standards and paved roads other engineers build on as we grow.

What you’ll do -

Design, build, and ship features in our React Native and Expo app, from onboarding and account management to money movement.

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Own the mobile release process end-to-end: EAS builds, App Store and Google Play submissions, OTA updates, feature flags, and staged rollouts.

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Improve the mobile developer experience: local tooling, CI pipelines, and build times.

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Drive app quality: performance, startup time, stability, crash-free rate, and accessibility.

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Implement security-critical mobile capabilities such as biometric authentication, secure storage, device integrity checks, and session management.

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Shape the APIs the app relies on, and contribute to them directly alongside backend engineers.

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Partner with Design to build a shared component library and a polished, consistent user experience.

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Use AI tools and agents to accelerate how we build, test, and ship.

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Raise the bar through code review, testing practices, and mentoring other engineers.