Frontend Developer (React Native)

Job Description: 

We are seeking an experienced React Native Developer with over 4 years of experience to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mobile development, particularly with React Native, and a passion for creating high-quality, scalable applications. You will play a key role in the development and maintenance of our cross-platform mobile applications, ensuring seamless integration with our web solutions and a superior user experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Mobile Development: Develop, maintain, and optimize React Native applications for both iOS and Android platforms.

• Integration: Work closely with back-end developers to integrate mobile applications with APIs and other services.

• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UI/UX designers, product managers, and other developers, to deliver a cohesive product experience.

• Performance Optimization: Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications by identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions.

• Code Reviews: Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and company guidelines.

• Testing: Write and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure the reliability and robustness of the application.

• Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation for code and APIs.

• Stay Updated: Keep up with the latest industry trends and technologies, and continuously improve the development process.

Qualifications:

       •  Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field        (or equivalent work experience) 

• Experience: 4+ years of experience in mobile development, with at least 3 years of hands-on experience with React Native.

• Skills: Proficiency in JavaScript and strong experience with React Native, including working with state management libraries (such as Redux or MobX) and navigation libraries.

• Platform Knowledge: Solid understanding of mobile development for both iOS and Android, including platform-specific considerations.

• Performance: Experience with performance optimization techniques for mobile applications.

• Version Control: Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git).

• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a team environment and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Preferred Skills:

• TypeScript: Experience with TypeScript for type safety and better code maintainability.

• UI/UX Understanding: Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and ability to collaborate effectively with designers.

• Back-End Knowledge: Basic understanding of back-end technologies and APIs to facilitate seamless integration.

• Testing Frameworks: Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest or Mocha.

• CI/CD: Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

• App Store Deployment: Experience with deploying applications to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store

Job Role:  

• Ability to consistently produce clean, efficient code based on client specifications  
• Ability to integrate software components and third-party programs to meet specifications  
• Reliability and proficiency in verifying and deploying programs and systems  
• Ability to troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software  
• Collaborative mindset and willingness to recommend and execute improvements  
• Commitment to optimization and accountability evident in creating technical documentation for reference and  reporting  

 Must Have 

·         Must Have:  React native development,Android/iOS Native Development Experience  

·         Good To Have: MySQL, TypeScript, Ionic 

Personal Skills:   

·         Organized, self-motivator, great communicator, detail oriented and fast learner.   

·         Excellent written and verbal communications skills at the business and technical level   

·         Strong work ethics, commitment and team work   

·         Should be a good team player & ready to shoulder additional responsibility   

Required Skills

Responsibilities

• Build pixel-perfect UIs across both mobile platforms.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

• 1- 3 years as a professional software developer.
• Experience with React, React Native and Redux
• Experience with at least one native mobile platform (bonus points if you moved to React Native from iOS or Android development).
• Firm grasp of the JavaScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax. Knowledge in TypeScript is a plus point.
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming.
• Familiarity with native build tools, like Xcode & Android Studio.
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage.

Mutual Mobile is a world-leading agency in mobile and emerging technology innovation, and we are looking for an accomplished and capable engineer to join our team!

We have built our success through timely bets on emerging technology and the rapid execution of targeted marketing campaigns and skills development. This approach has resulted in a list of premier clients that come to us to build innovative experiences using emerging technology (Nike, Google, GM, Nestle, UnderArmour). We’ve seen this happen with iOS, Android, Wearables, and IoT. We continue to evolve - it’s in our DNA - we stay at the forefront of innovation. Now, in 2019, we stand at the foot of a massive transition in emerging technology with the growth of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Voice, Bots, and more. We are ready to embrace these changes and to help our clients make the most of the opportunities they bring.

At Mutual Mobile, Engineers are highly-capable, experienced producers of high-quality, extensible code. They know the ins-and-outs of their field, apply that knowledge to solve the most difficult problems, and pass along that knowledge to the next generation through mentorship. They:

• Improve the structure, quality, and extensibility of code bases
• Implement tools and best practices
• Create reusable libraries and frameworks
• Discover and evaluate new tools and technology partners

We expect Engineers to:

• Be highly-capable experts in at least one technology
• Build breadth across multiple tech stacks
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable code
• Participate in planning activities and provide accurate story estimates
• Conduct code reviews and act as a role model on the team
• Proactively breakdown work, identify risks, and explore solutions

Engineers have experience:

• Expert experience with hybrid mobile application and plugin development using Cordova, PhoneGap
• Solid understanding of vanilla JavaScript independent of any framework
• Proven expertise in JavaScript tooling—debugging and build tools
• Good to have some experience with OpenCV and creating Cordova plugins. Awesome, if worked on some camera vision-related apps in the past.
• Experience with upgrading Cordova projects on iOS and Android.
• Experience with task automation frameworks like grunt in mobile app development tooling together with Xcode and Android SDK
• Experience with salesforce mobile cloud iOS and Android SDKs is a plus
• Experience with Native iOS & Android development is a plus
• Should have expert level knowledge of HTML5, CSS3
• Should have strong debugging skills on Developer Tools of the browser and working with cross-browser UI.
• Unit and UI testing frameworks like Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, Protractor, etc.
• Should have experience in Response / Adaptive Web Design for desktop, tablet, and mobile
• Good understanding of CSS preprocessors LESS/SASS.
• Must know about the complete deployment cycle (Alpha - Beta - Prod) on the App Store and Play Store.
• Provisioning DevOps tooling and continuous integration
• Driving development best practices, including unit testing, coding standards, and code reviews
• Capable of implementing industry best-practices related to mobile application development concepts, design, and architecture

Preferred experience includes:

• Familiarity with other front-end development such as Angular,  React or Vue
• Good to have task automators like Gulp and Grunt
• System monitoring and security design and implementation

Why work for Mutual Mobile? We make great products. We craft beautiful mobile interfaces and solve complex software challenges. Clients such as HEB, Google, lynda.com, Citi, Nike, and Under Armour come to us for our deep experience in mobile and emerging technology — from establishing a mobile strategy that provides impactful business value, to build those solutions from the ground up. We bring together the brightest minds in interactive & visual design, engineering, and business management to deliver solutions that actually matter.

You’ll love working here, because this isn’t a company of silos. Team members are empowered and encouraged to pursue cool ideas, think for themselves, and make mistakes. If your passion extends beyond the role, we’ll invite your views and assistance with improving our culture, systems and processes. We know you’re smart, and that you love learning new technologies--so you’ll be able to work on a variety of projects with many different types of people.