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As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark's purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses. 

We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand. 

About the Role: 

Lead Spark’s Mobile App Experience Layer, owning the technical direction, quality, and delivery of customer-facing mobile journeys. Balance hands-on technical leadership with strategic thinking to shape scalable, high-performance mobile experiences. Partner with mobile engineers, designers, product, and platform teams to deliver consistent, secure, and reusable experience components across iOS and Android.

Champion modern mobile engineering practices—including React Native / native development, performance optimisation, accessibility, and design system adoption.

Day to day you will be involved in: 

-       Build strong engineering practices: Set clear standards and reusable patterns for the mobile experience layer across iOS and Android.

-       Lead experience layer development: Design and build the Node.js experience layer that powers our mobile apps. Ensure it is secure, scalable, and reliable.

-       Support and grow developers: Mentor engineers through regular code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.

-       Enable squad delivery: Work closely with designers, product owners, and architects during discovery and delivery. Help remove blockers and shape the right technical approach.

-       Own technical direction and risk: Partner with the Chapter Lead to influence roadmap decisions, manage technical risk, and evolve the mobile platform.

-       Drive quality and consistency: Promote good testing, clean code, and consistent engineering standards across all mobile squads.

What experience you'll bring?

Strong development skills in TypeScript and Node.js, with hands-on experience building REST-based experience layer services. Proven experience working closely with native mobile app developers and a solid understanding of the mobile app ecosystem. Experience with cross-platform technologies such as React Native is desirable, along with good exposure to Kubernetes, cloud deployments, and CI/CD pipelines.

WHY CHOOSE US: 

Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai 

At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture.  Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be "how things are done at Spark", embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices.  We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability. 

Sustainability: Toitū

 Sustainability is a key focus for us.  We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand's recovery and economic transformation.  The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion. 

Benefits: Awhina 

 Our people matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we've got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including: 

• Wellbeing - Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection.  Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme. 

• Hybrid ways of working - for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 4 days a week, and 1 day being flexible. 

• Leave - in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave support and study leave.

• Spark Credit – we provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products. 

• Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme. 

• Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.

Due to the nature and urgency of this role, we are only considering applicants that are based in New Zealand with permanent residency, citizenship, or a valid work visa (with at least 18 months remaining).