PHP Backend Developer with React Native Experience

Job Description:

We are looking for a skilled React Native Developer to design, develop, and maintain high-performance cross-platform mobile applications for Android and iOS.

The ideal candidate must have strong command over React Native, TypeScript/JavaScript, and working knowledge of Kotlin (Android) or Swift (iOS) to build and integrate native modules when needed.

You will work closely with backend, design, and product teams to deliver seamless, fast, and stable mobile experiences for the ZestFindz ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain cross-platform mobile applications using React Native.
• Collaborate with design and product teams to deliver pixel-perfect, responsive UIs.
• Integrate REST APIs / GraphQL and handle authentication, caching, and error states efficiently.
• Implement and manage app state using Redux / Context API / Zustand.
• Optimize app performance, handle animations, memory leaks, and rendering issues.
• Manage offline storage using SQLite / AsyncStorage / MMKV.
• Configure and manage Firebase services - Auth, Firestore, Push Notifications, Analytics.
• Handle deep linking, in-app navigation, and app lifecycle events.
• Deploy apps to Google Play Store and Apple App Store (with signing, provisioning, versioning).
• Work with DevOps to integrate apps into CI/CD pipelines (Fastlane / GitHub Actions / Codemagic).
• Write clean, modular, reusable code with proper documentation and testing.
• Debug, profile, and optimize performance for low-end devices and weak networks.
• Ensure security best practices - secure token storage, environment management, and data encryption.

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong experience in React Native (0.70+) and TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of mobile architecture patterns (MVC, MVVM, Flux).
• Experience with React Navigation, Redux / Context API / Zustand, and API integration (Axios / Fetch).
• Familiarity with Firebase, App Permissions, and Push Notifications (FCM/APNS).
• Good understanding of Android Studio, Xcode, Gradle, and Cocoapods.
• Ability to write clean, testable code with unit and integration tests.
• Working experience with Git / GitHub / GitLab CI/CD.
• Problem-solving mindset and ability to debug across full mobile stack.

Good-to-Have Skills (Bonus):

• Knowledge of native SDK integrations (Maps, Camera, Payments, etc.).
• Experience with React Query / GraphQL.
• Familiarity with Fastlane, Crashlytics, App Center, or Sentry.
• Understanding of UX principles and animation libraries (Lottie, Reanimated).
• Experience with OTA updates (CodePush) and App Store Optimization (ASO).

About 1K

1K is an early-stage start-up building India’s first network of small-format stores (kiranas) for smaller towns through an integrated offline-online immersive experiential model. We have started off with the aggregation of kiranas, developing a franchise network for the delivery of daily necessities. We plan to build on the entrepreneurial spirit and underutilized real estate pockets hiding in India’s smaller towns and fuel Bharat’s growth through them. We are funded by Info Edge Ventures, Falcon Edge, and Kae Capital.

At 1K, our objective is to build technology that serves the needs of our customers with utmost satisfaction. To help us in doing so, we are looking for an experienced product manager to own the full lifecycle of product development from conception through release. An ideal candidate should have a keen eye for gaps in consumer product offerings and the innovative mindset to fill them. You should have experience in guiding cross-functional teams in the successful creation of products that improve consumer experience and grow market share.

You'll be responsible for developing android applications for managing various working aspects of e-commerce, warehousing & supply chain systems while playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, and deployment and help develop best practices for future development.

Responsibilities:

• Developing, releasing, and maintaining native Android Applications and oversee mobile application development efforts
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, code review, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
• Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test, and release products
• Carefully evaluate the technical trade-offs of every decision
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Good to have experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining complex mobile applications
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Optimizing performance for the apps and keep up to date on the latest industry trends in the mobile technologies
• Solid understanding of UI Design practices

Requirements:

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in writing and deploying production quality code.
• Familiarity with test-driven development (TDD)
• Familiarity with CI/CD
• Great understanding of Android development
• Solid understanding of MVI/MVP/MVVM architecture.
• Expertise in Kotin with solid OOD principles, design patterns, dependency injection (Hilt/Koin/Dagger)
• Good grasp of algorithms, memory management, and multithreaded programming
• Hands-On experience with Android’s debugging, unit/UI ­testing, memory, and performance optimization tools.
• Awesome to have exposure working in startups.
• Great people skills!

Requirements:

• Engineers with 1-6 years of experience in shipping consumer-facing Android apps with the large user base, ideally currently available on the Google Play Store

• Top-notch programming skills in Java, Kotlin and Android along with MVVM, Dagger2, Room, LiveData, Coroutine & JetPack-Components

• Command of memory management, view hierarchy, battery optimisation and in-depth experience with multi threaded and networked applications

• Worked with Restful APIs, third-party SDK Integrations and common technologies like HTTPS, JSON, OAuth, and SQL

• Thorough working knowledge of Android Studio with the Gradle build system
• Understanding the quirks of the fragmented ecosystem of Android OS versions and devices
• Focus on Material Design principles and pixel-perfect implementation of the design into code
• Solid experience with Git Care for quality with an obsession for performance and willingness to spend time testing the team's work as well as yours

Job Summary

We are looking for a great JavaScript developer who is proficient with React.js and React Native. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

Responsibilities and Duties

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Need to have a working knowledge of React Native

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications

Skills

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools  such as Git