React Native Developer

Job Title: React Native Developer

Experience: 2+ Years

Location: Bangalore, India

Elocity is a cleantech start-up striving to make the world a better place through technology innovations. We

are building a global infrastructure for making the transition to electric vehicles viable, affordable, and

sustainable by working closely with the utilities, governments, and public.

Headquartered out of Canada, we are a team of highly specialized domain experts and problem solvers

enabling utilities, public and private sector entities to successfully manage the demands of electric vehicle

charging and its infrastructure needs to pave the way for electromobility in future.

To know more visit https://elocitytech.com/

Job Summary

We are looking for a React / React Native senior developer interested in building performant mobile apps on

both the iOS and Android platforms. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and

implementing them following well-known React Native frameworks. 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 a quality product are important.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the mobile applications * Good

understanding of Design and Architecture Patterns

* Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.

* Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle (Android Studio, IntelliJ).

* Experience in native Android / iOS app development is preferable.

* Individuals who would connect best with the job requirements are those who:

    - Are excited to be part of a young, dynamic team that is building a disruptive, sustainable business 

    - Are willing to go the extra 100 miles it takes to win in a super competitive market.

    - Are innovative, resourceful and comfortable with dynamic business requirements

* Fulfil below minimum criteria:

    - 2+ years' experience in React-Native based app development

    - 1-2 years' experience in Mobile app development (React-Native + Android/iOS). 

    - Hands on experience in Redux

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields with 3+ years of experience

• 2+ years of native Android/iOS development

• Constantly learning and looking for ways to improve yourself and the processes around you.

• Deep knowledge of scalability, security, and maintainability of high-volume mobile applications

• Should have mobile testing experience with strong basics, understand about the mobile OS and

excellent debugging skills.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, leadership and decision-making skills

• Sharp analytical abilities, proven design skills, excellent communication skills.

• Mentoring and supporting other team members by doing code reviews and applying your experience

in process and technical leadership.

• Must be able to handle the independent execution.

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

Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in React Native.

• Integration of Rest APIs in react native.

• Firm grasp of the JavaScript and Typescript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax

• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming

• Ability to write well-documented, clean JavaScript code

• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts

• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle, Android studio and IntelliJ

• Proficient understanding of releasing and monitoring apps on IOS App store, Play store.

• Should be able to communicate to backend developers on API building and modifications needed.

• Testing and releasing builds Experience in application testing software’s Appium is preferable.

• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage

• Experience with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha

• Experience with handling production mobile apps.

• Experience with performance testing and optimization.

Responsibilities:

You’ll

• 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.

• 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 fixes—React 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.

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

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

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 Java Script 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.

Job description:

• Thorough understanding of React Native and its core principles- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Experience in React Js, Javascript, Ruby on Rails (preferred)- Experience with popular React workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript (ES6 & ES5 )- Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Working knowledge of git for version control- Understanding of Unix tools