- Lead the Mobile App team for Jetstar
- Full time permanent role based at our Jetstar HQ in Melbourne
- Staff Travel Benefit from Day one!
Love travel and passionate about all things aviation. You’re in the right place. At Jetstar, you get to takeoff at work, and in life.
As a team, we’re lucky we get to do both for a living – and we want you to be part of where we go next. Helping our teammates soar is what we’re all about. And with a new fleet of state-of-the-art aircraft, plus new routes being added, the sky’s the limit.
Takeoff with your next opportunity
The Engineering Lead – Mobile App at Jetstar Digital plays a key role in shaping the future of our customer-facing mobile experience. This role is responsible for driving the technical strategy, development, and delivery of the Jetstar mobile app as we transition from Capacitor JS to React Native and embark on a major expansion of customer-focused features.
Working with a globally distributed team across Melbourne, Singapore, and Bangkok—including vendor partners—you will lead the engineering function to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions while fostering long-term growth and continuous innovation across the mobile platform.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a distributed team of mobile engineers across Melbourne, Singapore, and Bangkok, including vendor delivery partners.
- Drive the development and delivery of Jetstar’s customer-facing mobile app, ensuring performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
- Own the technical strategy for the mobile platform, including the migration from Capacitor JS to React Native.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across product, design, and other engineering domains (Customer, Booking, Payments) to align on goals and execution.
- Promote a culture of technical excellence through code reviews, testing, and modern CI/CD practices.
- Monitor and optimize app performance using Firebase and mobile analytics tools.
- Ensure effective delivery from offshore vendor teams by managing priorities, quality, and velocity.
- Maintain up-to-date technical documentation to support onboarding and long-term sustainability.
- Foster a high-performance team culture centered around innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
Knowledge, skills, and experience:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a focus on mobile app development.
- Proven hands-on expertise in React Native or equivalent cross-platform mobile frameworks.
- Demonstrated success leading engineering teams, including distributed and vendor-based teams.
- Strong grasp of mobile architecture, performance optimization, and app lifecycle best practices.
- Proficiency in Firebase (Analytics, Crashlytics, Remote Config) and mobile tooling for monitoring and deployment.
- Experience working in agile environments and collaborating with product managers, designers, and backend engineers.
- Familiarity with mobile CI/CD pipelines and tooling (e.g. Fastlane, Bitrise, GitHub Actions).
- Clear, effective communication skills, with the ability to influence and align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking abilities, with a focus on delivering scalable solutions.
Your Life At Jetstar Is Unlike Any Other
Put the craft in aircraft: There’s a new fleet of A321LR NEO’s waiting for your arrival. Beyond Jetstar, our teams get exposure to projects related to the Qantas Group’s A320/1, B787 and A321 Freighters.
Live the travel dream: You and your nominated travel companions can takeoff more with our famous Qantas Group Staff Travel discount.
Make work feel like a holiday: Join a fun, driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to takeoff together and find ways to help their teammates soar.
There’s a place for everyone at Jetstar: For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of. We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly. We welcome applications from anyone who wants to takeoff with us. If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.
We’re Jetstar. Let’s takeoff together
We can’t wait to hear from you. Apply now
Applications will close on Friday the 18th of July
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We're Jetstar
We’re Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we’ve flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320/21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.
Impressive numbers? What's even more impressive is the team of extraordinary people taking off together day in day out, flight after flight.
Our people are the real jet stars.
We're Jetstar
We’re Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we’ve flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320/21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.
Impressive numbers? What's even more impressive is the team of extraordinary people taking off together day in day out, flight after flight.
Our people are the real jet stars.
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