React Native Developer

Job Title : React Native SDE 3

Experience : 8+ Years

Employment Type : Contract to Hire (C2H)

Location : Bangalore (Hybrid – 3 Days WFO)

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days

Job Summary :

We are looking for an experienced React Native Developer to join its mobile engineering team and help build scalable, high-performance applications used by millions of customers.

This is a founding React Native team opportunity where you'll play a key role in defining architecture, best practices, and driving the migration from native Android/iOS applications to React Native.

Mandatory Skills :

Strong React Native development, JavaScript/TypeScript, Mobile Application Architecture, GraphQL API Integration, Android & iOS Platform Knowledge, Mobile Performance Optimization, Accessibility Standards, CI/CD & DevOps Practices, Agile Methodologies (TDD/BDD), System Design, and experience building scalable consumer-facing mobile applications.

Required Skills :

• Strong hands-on experience in React Native development.
• Experience building and architecting mobile applications.
• Good understanding of Android and iOS platforms.
• Experience with GraphQL APIs.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with CI/CD, Agile, and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of mobile performance optimization and accessibility standards.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop and maintain React Native applications.
• Work closely with Product, Backend, QA, and Mobile teams.
• Design scalable and maintainable mobile solutions.
• Participate in coding, testing, deployment, and support activities.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering best practices.

Interview Process :

1. Technical Interview (Geektrust)
2. Client Coding Round
3. Client System Design Round
4. Managerial Round (Optional)

A bit about us

WeatherBug is a popular weather site and mobile app providing hyperlocal, live weather data and proactive alerting to consumer users. With over 15 million unique users per month, across all platforms, WeatherBug’s vision is to provide environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives. The WeatherBug app is a top-rated weather app in the app stores. In 2019, WeatherBug was named the best weather app by MediaPost’s Appy Awards. WeatherBug is owned and operated by GroundTruth, a media company that turns real-world behavior into marketing that delivers real business results.

Learn more at WeatherBug.com

At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and we have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023). Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

A bit about you

A recognized expert in their professional discipline, with significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Establishes critical strategic and operational goals, and develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operational plans to achieve organizational objectives. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization—projects that carry substantial consequences for success or failure. Requires strong influence and communication with executive leadership. Problems encountered are often complex and multidimensional, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that affect multiple areas of the organization.

You will:

• Develop production-ready code to meet scope of requirements.
• With guidance, update and create documentation as needed for new and existing solutions.
• Participate in code-reviews with comments to improve code quality, stability, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain unit and integration testing solutions. Be able to run your code in lower environments.
• Run tests on the mobile device to ensure code meets requirements
• Watch mobile releases for Android or iOS for features you developed
• Teardown your solutions across multiple environments and platforms.
•  Provide operational support of your deployed code
• Determine issues within your areas of expertise.
• Work with teams across the engineering organization to understand and incorporate client requirements into final solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years) in Computer Science or a related field, OR 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on Android application development using Kotlin and Android Studio.
• Experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks, including Jetpack components (e.g., Navigation, Room, ViewModel, LiveData), Retrofit for networking, and image loading libraries (e.g., Glide, Coil).
• Proficiency with asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger/Hilt or Koin.
• Experience with app architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI, and clean architecture principles.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile teams and participating in iterative development cycles.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, best practices, performance optimization, and memory management.
• Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Espresso).
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and automated build/deployment pipelines.
• Ability to independently take ownership of tasks and deliver robust solutions.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Would be great if you have:

• Experience with React Native, including building function components, using hooks, and working with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Play Store processes, including app signing, publishing, and release management.
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory.

You are:

• A team player who is organized, flexible and willing to adapt
• Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn
• A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts
• A strong communicator who is able to collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and work through conflicting needs
• A problem solver who likes to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution
• Organized with demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver timely work
• A team player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help when needed
• Self-sufficient and not afraid to take the lead and manage tasks independently
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Respectful–-we treat each other with respect and assume the best of one another
• Not afraid to have fun!

What we offer

At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

● Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity

● Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)

● In Office Daily Catered Lunch

● Fully stocked snacks/beverages

● Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents

● Covid home quarantine cover

● Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines

● Wellness/Gym Reimbursement

●  Pet Expense Reimbursement

●  Childcare Expenses and reimbursements

●  Employee assistance program

●  Employee referral program

●  Education reimbursement program

●  Skill development program

●  Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)

●  Internet reimbursement

●  Birthday treat reimbursement

●  Home office set up

●  Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic

●  Creche reimbursement

●   Co-working space reimbursement

●   NPS employer match

●   Meal card for tax benefit

●   Special benefits on salary account

●   New joiner relocation

Min 3 yrs of working in Android

Min 2 yrs of working in iOS

Min 6 months working in React Native

Min 1 yr of team handling experience

Development

Strong in data structures and algorithms

Strong problem solving and analytical abilities

Hands-on with SOLID design principles

Should have developed and delivered successful mobile app projects

Experience in -

Consumer facing apps

Analytics SDKs integrations

Marketing SDKs integrations

Performance optimisation

SQL databases

Building production grade mobile applications

Experience in working in Agile/Scrum projects and fast paced environments

Preference for candidates with :

Payments/financial systems background

Personality

Result oriented

Initiative taker. Not expecting spoon feed.

Team player - looking beyond personal KRAs and helping the team succeed

3H - Humble, Honest and Hard-worker

• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Development of UI elements and Integration with APIs
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Ensure high performance and responsiveness of requests.
• Must be able to write solutions that scale
• 3 - 4 years of full-time work experience in React Native
• Self-motivated with excellent work ethics
• Experience in React Native bridging concepts
• Experience with Typescript.
• Have developed and published apps for either Android or iOS.
• Design, development, coding, testing and debugging skills
• Knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures
• Knowledge of prototyping and rapid development techniques
• Strong verbal and written communication skills Desired Candidate
• State management in mobile applications
• Security methodologies in mobile application development
• Experience with offline storage, and performance tuning
• Experience working on plugin integration.
• Optimize code for performance and scalability
• Deployment of apps on App Store / Play Store
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Can work well independently as well as in a team
• Flexible to work in any mobile technology
• Understanding of Agile development methodologies
• Interacting with Business Analysts, SMEs to understand the Business Processes and Business Rules
• Familiarity with native build tools, like Xcode, Gradle ( Android Studio, IntelliJ)
• Strong mobile development experience, including integration with Native Modules and custom iOS/Android SDKs
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Job Description

- With 2+ years of experience of React Native experience on iOS/Android. Platforms

- Must have experience on RESTful Web-Services

- Deep familiarity with Redux and common popular React Native patterns, libraries, components, and frameworks.

- Well verse in Android and Ios framework and have atleast 2 app on playstore/Appstore.

- Mobile-first design and responsive code deeply ingrained in your thought process.

- Familiarity working with REST APIs for deep integrations with both platforms i.e. general best practices, shortcomings, trade-offs, etc.

- Have a solid understanding of CSS,Javascript and react.js.

- Must be good in problem solving, Data structures andAlgorithms.

- Must be hands on writing Unit test cases.

- Ability to work with minimal guidance in fluid environments while providing guidance/stability to junior engineers in the team.

- Strong understanding of App Architectures, E-commercesolutions

- Basic knowledge of version control system like Git / Mercurial / Bitbucket

- Writes well managed and clean codes

- Hands on experience on features specifically QR scanning, Push Notifications, Deep Linking, GPS etc. are an added advantage

- Hands on experience with 3rd party tools integration like Google Analytics, Engagement tool, Payment gateway integration is an added advantage

We are looking for a React Native developer interested in building performant mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

Responsibilities

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth 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.
• Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixesReact Native moves fast and often breaks things.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Transition existing React web apps to React Native

Roles & Responsibilities

• Capability to develop highly responsive applications and websites.
• Capability to find and fix bugs.
• Enhance the performance of an application close to a native one by removing the constriction.
• Capability to maintain code that is easy to understand.
• Write tests for automation so that the app can be tested easily.
• Capability to take advantage of native APIs for deep integration of all platforms.
• Capability to completely transcend a React Web App into a React Native one.

Skills

• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming.
• Complete familiarity with Javascript and capability to write script that is optimised and works perfectly.
• Capability to write Well-documented code with Javascript that is easily readable.
• Having the knowledge of third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts that might occur.
• Understanding of native build tools like Xcode, Gradle etc.
• Experience in testing with tools like Jest, Detox, Cypress etc.
• Knowledge about Offline Storage, REST APIs, and document request model.