About the role

We’re hiring our first Senior React Native Engineer to lead Kernel’s move into mobile! This is a foundational role with the opportunity to shape not just our app, but our long-term mobile strategy.

Customers have asked for a mobile app, and as Kernel grows, delivering a seamless mobile experience is key to providing exceptional investing services. You’ll own a defined area of the app, building features that directly impact our growing customer base. The web app currently reaches 50,000 users across New Zealand, with growth toward 100,000 by next year. Your work will be visible, meaningful, and influence a high-profile product used nationwide.

This role offers autonomy to make decisions within your area while collaborating closely with a supportive engineering team. You’ll partner with our product designer to create a native mobile experience that complements our highly rated web app and transforms how Kiwis manage and grow their wealth with Kernel.

About Kernel

Kernel Wealth is a growing fintech company on a mission to help Kiwis build wealth, improve financial literacy, and create lasting saving and investing habits. Our investment platform makes investing simple and accessible, with tools and guidance to support long-term financial goals.

We’re at an exciting stage, scaling fast, expanding our team, and building the foundations for the next phase of growth. Our culture is collaborative, hands-on and ambitious. Things move quickly here, and every person plays a key role in shaping what we become.

What you’ll do

• Lead the build of Kernel’s first mobile app using React Native, setting the technical foundations for our long-term mobile capability
• Establish and own mobile engineering best practices, architecture, code quality, CI/CD, testing, release processes, and monitoring
• Collaborate with product designers and product managers to craft a native mobile experience that’s seamless, intuitive, and distinctly Kernel
• Work closely with web engineers to ensure consistency across platforms while introducing mobile-first patterns
• Ship features hands-on, while guiding other engineers contributing to mobile development
• Champion performance, accessibility, and scalability in our mobile approach
• Stay current with tools and approaches in the React Native and mobile ecosystem to ensure Kernel builds with the future in mind

You’ll be great if you bring

• Experience building and shipping commercial mobile apps, native or cross-platform