React Native Developer

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

Job Description

• Architect, build and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Work as part of a small team to build React Native iOS / Android applications for clients

• Implement pixel-perfect UI's that match designs.

• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.

• Integrate third-party API's.
• Release applications to iOS and Google Play stores.
• Work with native modules when required.

• Complete two week sprints and participate in sprint retrospectives and daily standups.

• Assist with building estimates.
• Interface with clients via Slack, Zoom, and email.

Job Description:

Responsibilities –

Ensure effective Design, Development, Validation and support activities in line with client needs and architectural requirements.,- Ensure continual knowledge management.,- Adherence to the organizational guidelines and processes

Technical and Professional Requirements :

Minimum 3 years of experience required

Experience in developing React Native app for iOS and Android platform,

Knowledge of React Native available inbuilt UI components and the props those UI component accept,

Should have worked with major node modules such as react-native-maps, @react-native/community geolocation, offline database, etc,

Handle build for simulator and ipa/apk for UAT/Prod release with signing. (Release Management),

Should have worked and deployed iOS App

Should have worked on sqlite

Should have knowledge of database SQL ( Select and update queries)

Purpose: We are looking for React Native Application Developer who possesses a passion for mobile technologies.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Ideal candidate should have Working knowledge of React Native and React JS is a must.
• Over 3+ years of React Native experience with strong basics.
• At least have done 4/5 projects using React Native.

• Strong passion for Programming in general and Android and IOS App development.

• Strong problem solving skills.
• Strong system design and architecture skills.
• Curiosity to tinker around, explore new paradigms and strong zest for continuous improvement.
• Over 3+ years of Mobile development experience with strong basics.
• E2E App development and/or experience of developing SDKs is good to have.

Expected Start Date: 1/4/2021

Job Type: Full-time

• Good in Hybrid, Native Mobile development, and associated development frameworks SDKs.
• Good knowledge in one of the design component frameworks library – (React Native UI Components Library, Material UI, Native UI Components library)
• Stronghold in HTML and CSS or related design libraries like bootstrap, fluid layout system, grid layout system, Flexi layout system)
• Stronghold in repo management system – (Preferred GIT)
• Good to have knowledge on deployment and packaging application to play store or app store.
• Good to have knowledge on deployment and packaging application to play store or app store.
• Good at React Native with a minimum of 3 years of experience in IT.
• Good at React Js/Redux is preferred
• Good Hybrid mobile development is required
• Good at databases – Relational or NoSQL.
• Interface with clients via Slack, Zoom, and email.
• Work with modern tools including Jira, Slack, GitHub, etc

What you need to have: