Mobile app developer

JOB DETAILS:

- Job Title: Lead II - Software Engineering- React Native - React Native, Mobile App Architecture, Performance Optimization & Scalability

- Industry: Global digital transformation solutions provider

- Experience: 7-9 years

- Working Days: 5 days/week

- Job Location: Mumbai

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Job Description

Job Title

Lead React Native Developer (6–8 Years Experience)

Position Overview

We are looking for a Lead React Native Developer to provide technical leadership for our mobile applications. This role involves owning architectural decisions, setting development standards, mentoring teams, and driving scalable, high-performance mobile solutions aligned with business goals.

Must-Have Skills

• 6–8 years of experience in mobile application development
• Extensive hands-on experience leading React Native projects
• Expert-level understanding of React Native architecture and internals
• Strong knowledge of mobile app architecture patterns
• Proven experience with performance optimization and scalability
• Experience in technical leadership, team management, and mentorship
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• Proficiency in modern React Native development practices
• Experience with Expo toolkit and libraries
• Strong understanding of custom hooks development
• Focus on writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code
• Understanding of mobile app lifecycle
• Knowledge of cross-platform design consistency

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with microservices architecture
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Firebase, etc.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with A/B testing and feature flag implementation
• Familiarity with machine learning integration in mobile applications
• Exposure to innovation-driven technical decision-making

Skills: React native, mobile app development, devops, machine learning

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Notice period - 0 to 15 days only (Need Feb Joiners)

Location: Navi Mumbai, Belapur

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Participating in the entire product lifecycle (analyze, develop, test, release, and support.
• Contributing to research for new web and mobile technologies and recommend solutions to improve interface designs and interactions
• Testing, debugging, and fine-tuning to optimize the application’s performance.
• Designing intuitive applications to enhance users’ experiences.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

• 2+ year experiences of mobile/web application development and system integration.
• Must be a skilled programmer with knowledge of coding best practices and ability to produce highly readable and maintainable code.
• Management and support of Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
• Experience in API development and integration with third-party APIs
• English communication is required. Great communication skills to coordinate across technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Creative, detail-oriented, and with good problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate with and lead other development team members.
• Ability to work in multiple projects and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Candidate must possess at least a bachelor's degree or Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent.
• Specialization in IONIC must.

KNOWLEDGE OR EXPERTISE IN THE FOLLOWING ARE AN ADVANTAGE:

• Specialization in HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and JavaScript.
• Experience with web service integration (REST, JSON, XML).
• Experience or knowledge with Git, Gitlab, GitHub is a plus.

• Experience range should be 2 to 6 years with 2 years of strong Flutter Development Experience.
• This is going to be and Individual Contributor role hence candidate should be able to single-handedly perform tasks, manage role/project and seek direction by him/herself.
• Strong Coding and Development exposure in Flutter.
• Azure Exposure is mandatory.
• GitHub Link is mandatory.

• Experience range should be 7 to 9 years; currently leading a team for multiple projects.
• Minimum 2 years of strong Flutter Coding & Development experience.
• Minimum 2 years of Team-management experience.
• Alongside development exposure in Flutter, candidate should have good exposure in Testing and on Backend support.
• Azure Exposure is mandatory.
• GitHub Link is mandatory.

Intro:
Empala is an exciting new fintech launching in Singapore. Empala aims to help workers in the SEA region get access to their pay & helping them save for unexpected expenses. 

Job Description:

As fullstack developer at Empala you will be building and shaping our product. Our current offerings are centered around a React Native app (iOS & Android) with a serverless backend.

Empala is a flat and young organization, meaning every hand has a lasting impact on our product and our culture. You will report directly to the CTO and will in general be working closely with the founders. The job is of course mostly focused on building and maintaining our products, but in a small team you will have to wear a lot of hats, you could get involved in sales, marketing or anything in between, ideally you will see this as a positive thing and a chance to learn more about our users/customers/new areas of work. 

Benefits: 

At Empala we offer a competitive package that will be a mix of salary and employee stock options. We pay ourselves on demand meaning you can get paid for the work you have done when you wish it, be it daily, weekly, monthly or a combination of above. 

Requirements: 

The following requirements are a guideline, if you are missing some points but you are confident that you can master them in a reasonable amount of time there might still be a place for you at Empala. 

Preferred

• React Native 
• Backend tools and frameworks (express or any other, non JS is OK as well) 
• Cloud providers, AWS preferred 
• Git

Other requirements 

• Fluent in english 
• Proactive approach to problem solving 
• A hunger to get stuff done 

Nice to have: 

• Experience with Redux, GraphQL, Typescript, AWS Amplify
• Experience with SCRUM and/or TDD