Mobile App Frontend Developer

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior React Native Developer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will leverage your extensive experience and expertise to build and enhance our mobile applications, mentor junior developers, and contribute to the growth and success of our engineering team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Led the development of high-quality mobile applications using React Native.
• Design and implement new features and functionalities to improve user experience.
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Optimize applications for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Mentor and guide junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards. 
• Troubleshoot and debug applications, providing timely resolutions to issues.
• Stay updated with emerging trends and technologies in front-end development.

Requirements:

• 5 to 8 years of experience in designing and building mobile applications using React Native.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including ES6 features.
• Solid understanding of React Native architecture and ecosystem.
• Experience with state management libraries such as MobX or Redux.
• Familiarity with front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, and NPM.
• Sound knowledge of RESTful APIs and integration with back-end services.
• Strong understanding of responsive web design principles and media queries.
• Proficient in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS, ReactJS, or VueJS.
• Experience in unit testing with Jest or similar frameworks.
• Good sense of design and user experience, with an eye for detail.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate ideas clearly and effectively.
• Passionate about building world-class user interfaces and improving user experience.
• Experience with Figma or similar design tools is a plus.
• Previous experience in a leadership or mentoring role is highly desirable

Job Description

The primary role of this position will be to develop rich Mobile applications for a highly accessed and commercial digital content platform based on a high-performance CE device. We are looking for resources with Android and iOS technology skills for user facing application development using TypeScript and JavaScript FW competency. Your primary focus will be on developing application components and implementing them following well-known mobile development workflows.

Responsibilities:

• As an individual contributor understand the requirements, perform detailed design and coding, debugging, testing and release of the given modules.
• Development of new user-facing features using Mobile technologies, re-usable components and front-end libraries.
• Rapid development ability to build and demonstrate quick Mobile driven solutions.
• Work closely within a small team of experienced engineers to produce high-quality software products on a daring schedule.
• Demonstrate professional engineering practices including alignment to coding standards, producing design documentation, and supporting integration.
• Translating design and wireframes into high quality code, with an eye for performance on specific target devices.
• Write unit test and perform functional verification for the responsible modules
• Perform code reviews and sanity checks for the code developed.

Skills:

• Experience with React JS, React Native, JavaScript including DOM Manipulation and JavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of any of React Native and its core principles for developing and maintaining Android or iOS applications.
• Good knowledge of HTML5 and CSS
• Experience with modern front-end build pipelines and tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Agile Scrum based Development
• Ability to communicate effectively and make effective Presentations
• Solid understanding of MVC and stateless APIs & building RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field, and Minimum of 3 years of experience in commercial software development.
• Expertise in object-oriented design methodologies
• Experience working with medium to large scale code bases in small to large groups
• A passion for front end application development

Desirable:

• Timely and committed: Being able to work in a time constrained and demanding environment
• One who likes to push beyond own goals and makes way through challenges!
• Quality-driven, quick learner who is also a team player, can work independently without supervision

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features
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What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
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What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
• Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.

Desired Skills and Experience

Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

👋🏼We're Nagarro.

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (19000+ experts across 33 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We're looking for great new colleagues. That's where you come in.

REQUIREMENTS:

·      Relevant expertise in React Native, React Native CLI, JavaScript and TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, Database (SQLite, Realm) and Unit Testing.

·      Good experience in React Native UI Controls (Scroll Views, List Views), State Management (Redux, Saga), Jest/Mocha Security and Performance best practices.

·      Knowledge of high-quality professional software engineering practices for agile software development cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and deployment.

·      Fundamental knowledge of design patterns.

·      Experience in communicating effectively with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.

·      Passionate about building great solutions.

·      Mentoring the team members to meet the client's needs and holding them accountable for high standards of delivery

·      Being able to understand and relate technology integration. scenarios and be able to apply these learnings in complex troubleshooting scenarios.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·      Writing and reviewing great quality code.

·      Understanding functional requirements thoroughly and analysing the client’s needs in the context of the project.

·      Envisioning the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements, and being able to define technologies, patterns and frameworks to realize it.

·      Determining and implementing design methodologies and tool sets

·      Enabling application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities.

·      Being able to lead/support UAT and production roll outs

·      Creating, understanding and validating WBS and estimated effort for given module/task, and being able to justify it.

·      Addressing issues promptly, responding positively to setbacks and challenges with a mindset of continuous improvement.

·      Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations.

·      Helping the team in troubleshooting and resolving of complex bugs

·      Coming up with solutions to any issue that is raised during code/design review and being able to justify the decision taken.

·      Carrying out POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements.

Work Experience:

● 3-5 years of experience in software design and development

Key Responsibilities:

● Must have worked with JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, Bootstrap

● Strong Experience in ReactNative Technology to develop mobile applications(Android/iOS).

● Experience with object-oriented & MVC design patterns

● Good experience in REST and GraphQL

● Strong understanding of database fundamentals and designing database schemas.

● Candidates having React.Js (in addition to ReactNative) will be preferred.

● Experience in TDD/BDD

● Exposure to Git, CI/CD systems like Jenkins

● Developing intelligent and scalable engineering solutions from scratch.

● Working on high/low-level product designs & roadmaps along with a team of ace developers.

● Building products using bleeding-edge technologies

● In-depth understanding of Javascript, the DOM, and relevant concepts

● Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, etc.

● Experience with a testing framework

Desirable:

● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB and SQL databases like MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

● A good foundation in computer science, with competencies in data structures, algorithms, & software design.

● Knowledge of Inventory Management System/CMS and CRM

● Experience of working in Agile team

● Always ready for learning & adopting new latest technologies.

Qualifications:

● BTech/MTech/MCA or relevant certifications Soft Skills:

● Self-motivation to work independently and strong work ethic.

● Good verbal and written communication skills

● Ability to work in a team, and adapt to new and evolving processes.

● Flexibility and adaptable

• Relevant experience in building a mobile application using React Native.
• Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components for mobile and implementing them following well-known React workflows. (such as Flux or Redux)
• You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. 
• You will be coordinating with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. 
• Should have published at least 2 live hybrid mobile applications. 
• Good understanding of Android / iOS / Web design guidelines, SDK and excellent JavaScript skills. 
• Expertise in RESTful APIs development. 
• Expertise with code testing best practices, including unit and integration testing to ensure a quality of code. 
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, TFS and Agile/SCRUM Development methodologies