Jackett

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer (React Native) who will lead the development for Jackett's mobile apps. Each day you'll design, build and ship features that will directly improve teachers' lives. You will shape our product direction and technical architecture for the years to come.

You'll report directly to the CTO and partner closely with teams across product and design to build React Native apps for Android and iOS from scratch. And we'll work together to create an environment where you can grow professionally. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the architecture, development and implementation of our mobile app to enable the team to quickly iterate a high-quality product.
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Implement pixel perfect Ul's that match the designs.
• Create our iOS and Android deployment CI/CD pipeline to ship reliable features daily.
• Engage in technical research and champion best practices for writing clean, maintainable and reusable code with clear documentation.
• Accurately estimate time and effort required to deliver high quality features.
  Required Skills/Abilities:
• 4 + years of experience as a software engineer.
• Built and shipped high-quality mobile apps (android and iOS) using React Native.
• Production-level experience with Mobile C l / C D , unit testing and automated E2E testing
• Proficiency working with RESTful APIs.  
• Ability to take extreme ownership of your work and to deal with high pressure situations in a fast paced environment and meet targets without compromising the quality of the deliverables.
• Product understanding to break down user stories into high impact features.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, especially for a remote first work environment   

 

Extra Credits for:

• Knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure - CodePipeline, Amplify, CDN etc.
• Knowledge of TypeScript.
• Knowledge of SCORM and Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) framework
• Experience of React Native development at an early stage EdTech startup

The Role :

- We're looking for an Engineering Lead - who can lead our team of engineers to build, scale and expand our digital infrastructure. From our frontend to backend, to our intuitive user interface - as the Engineering Lead - you will lead it all.

- You will have the opportunity to spearhead the architecture development of, build and maintain multiple cloud-based applications.

- You will report directly to the CTO and partner closely with teams across product and design. You will learn new skills yourself, such as cloud orchestration and product design, and also contribute to the continued skill-development of the team.

Responsibilities :

- Lead our engineering team, developing the capabilities of the team through hiring, mentoring, and hands-on management to build a world class engineering team and culture.

- Guide, strategize and prioritize the engineering efforts based on the company strategy for our in-market product as well as lead the end to end development of our new mobile app.

- Define the requirements of the product efforts, provide estimates for solutions, and manage the scope and delivery against commercial milestones during the life-cycle of the product efforts.

- Manage the engineering architecture and lead the DevOps processes while actively seeking opportunities for innovation and creative problem solving.

- Lead implementation of processes and supporting tools as per the evolving needs of the organization.

Required skills/abilities :

- Proven experience leading all aspects of web or mobile apps, from definition to operations, and can guide our product through scale and avoid common pitfalls.

- 4-6 years of experience as a full-stack engineer with in-depth knowledge of modern tech stacks and cloud infrastructure.

- Firm knowledge of scalable backend architecture, DevOps and scaling applications infrastructure for web and mobile applications from 1000 users to 1,00,000 users.

- At least 3 years of people management experience with leadership qualities, preferably at an early stage startup.

- Advanced knowledge of Project Management, Strategic Planning, and Agile/Scrum Methodology.

- Ability to deal with high pressure situations in a fast paced environment and meet targets without compromising the quality of the deliverables.

- Excellent organizational and communication skills, especially for a remote first work environment.