React Native Developer

Company Description

Sciflare Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a 10+ years dynamic and innovative IT and software development company located in Chennai. With a strong presence in the US, Europe, and UAE, we specialize in various domains, including AI, Gaming, Banking, Fintech, Fantasy Sports, IT, E-commerce, Logistics, Healthcare, and On-Demand Services. Our team of over 40 talented professionals is dedicated to delivering cutting-edge solutions that drive our clients' success. Our top clients include Provident Bank, Century Financial, HDFC Life, The New Indian Express, Cisco, and EROS Group.

Join us and be a part of a company that thrives on creativity, technology, and excellence.

CHANCE TO WORK WITH APPS WITH 10LAKH CONCURRENT USERS IN GAMING INDUSTRY

Role Description

• You are a champion at Code reviews and Unit/Mock/integration Tests
• You have a strong sense of ownership of what you design and deploy
• You provide strong technical mentorship to team members
• You are an excellent team player
• You continuously learn and improve

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior React Native Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will lead and manage software development projects across diverse domains such as Gaming, Banking, Fintech, Fantasy Sports, IT, E-commerce, Logistics, Healthcare, and On-Demand Services. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of projects, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations.

Skill Sets

• Startup Experience: Proven track record of taking ownership of projects and delivering impactful results in a startup environment.
• Relevant Experience: 3-9 years of experience in mobile app development, with a strong focus on building high-performance, scalable, and maintainable React Native applications.
• React Native Expertise: Extensive experience with React Native, including deep knowledge of its ecosystem, libraries, and tools.
• JavaScript & TypeScript: Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, with experience in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Mobile Development: Hands-on experience in developing cross-platform mobile applications for both iOS and Android, with a strong understanding of platform-specific guidelines and best practices.
• State Management: Proficiency with state management solutions such as Redux, MobX, or Context API.
• APIs & Integration: Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints, with a strong understanding of asynchronous data fetching and state management.
• UI/UX Design: Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and experience working with designers to implement user-friendly interfaces and improve app usability.
• Testing & Debugging: Experience with mobile testing frameworks and tools such as Jest, Detox, or Appium. Skilled in debugging and performance optimization for mobile applications.
• Version Control & CI/CD: Experience with Git, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with tools like GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket.
• Agile Practices: Experience working in Agile environments, with a solid understanding of SCRUM and related methodologies.
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a remote or distributed team setting.
• Solutions-Oriented: Ability to tackle complex problems with a solutions-oriented mindset, adapting to the fast pace and challenges of startup life.

Responsibilities

• Scalable Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of scalable mobile architectures that ensure performance, reliability, and maintainability of React Native applications.
• Informed Decisions: Make architectural and technical decisions that align with the companys business objectives and technical strategy.
• Code Quality & Standards: Maintain high standards of code quality through regular code reviews, adhering to best practices and industry standards.
• User Experience: Work closely with UX/UI designers to ensure that applications provide a seamless and engaging user experience.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize mobile applications for speed, responsiveness, and efficiency, ensuring a smooth user experience across both iOS and Android platforms.
• Testing & Debugging: Implement comprehensive testing strategies to identify and address issues early in the development cycle, ensuring reliable and high-quality releases.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to understand user requirements and deliver features that meet user needs and project goals.
• Continuous Learning: Stay current with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in React Native and mobile development to drive innovation and improvement.
• Autonomy: Take ownership of projects and tasks, working independently and effectively without the need for constant supervision.
• Simplicity: Strive for simplicity and elegance in your code and solutions, avoiding unnecessary complexity.
• Proactive Problem Solving: Anticipate and address potential issues before they arise, contributing to the overall success of the team and project.
• Solution-Oriented: Focus on delivering practical solutions to problems, going beyond just writing code to contribute to the overall success of the product.

Life@Sciflare:

• An exciting & lively workplace gives you the chance to work in an environment where you may unleash your creativity and inventiveness to the best extent possible.
• Work in a collaborative setting where your cooperative team contributes new perspectives to your objectives and forges strong bonds.
• Growth mindset: You are nurtured through each stage of your professional advancement by learning and unlearning new things.

The role is office-based, working from Monday to Friday 9:00 AM to 06:00 PM & all Saturdays & Sundays are off.

We are looking for a Senior React Native Mobile App 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

• Firm grasp of the JavaScript and TypeScript or ClojureScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• Knowledge of 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, IntelliJ
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage
• Experiences with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha

• Develop applications for iPhone and iPad
• Review new releases, SDKs, updates in the mobile space
• Proficient in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa Touch.
• Experience in object-oriented programming
• Proficient in code versioning tools including Mercurial, Git, and SVN.
• Experience of the software development lifecycle: from requirements gathering to programming, testing to deployment.
• Experience with integrating with RESTful, SOAP API backends
• Experience with APIs (OAuth, XML, JSON, REST, etc. )
• Evaluate third-party IDEs' and tools to build relevant applications
• Native iOS Application Development Objective C, iOS SDK, Xcode, Cocoa Layer, Media Layer, Core Service Layer, Core OS Layer, iOS Frameworks, iOS Developer Tools, iOS programming, iOS Human Interface

• The unit test developed code
• Conduct code reviews & peer reviews
• Integrate user interface with code
• APIs (OAuth, XML, JSON, REST, etc. )
• RESTful, SOAP API backends
• Review updates/patches and make necessary code updates

Principal duties and responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of automotive applications
• Analysis of customer product requirements
• Review and investigate issues in code developed by peers
• Partner closely with customers and other Cerence teams to establish and maintain clear, concise communication through regular reporting, meeting participation, and follow-up
• Adopt underlying layers for Android Automotive to run on customer hardware

Education: Bachelor/Master in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Minimum years of work experience: 4+ years of industry experience

Required skills:

• 4 + years’ software development experience, preferably for automotive and in connection with user interface technologies
• Experience using modern development processes/tools and developing through the complete Software Development Life Cycle
• Experiences in programing and scripting languages (JAVA, Python, Typescript)
• Experience with using source control tools like Git and CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins
• Experience working in / Knowledge of Agile/Scrum framework
• Experience in Android development
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Strong object-oriented analysis, design, and coding skills
• Fluent in English both written and spoken
• Strong team player and customer focus

Preferred skills:

• Good knowledge of Android Automotive platform
• Experience with VS Code
• Ability to set-up and hardware equipment in support of software development tasks (i.e. configure software on target device, connect cabling/power suppliers, etc.)

Senior Android Development Engineer - Chennai

Who we are?

Kaleidofin is a financial platform for the informal sector, which provides solutions tailored to the customer’s goals and are intuitive to use. We are working towards creating fair and transparent financial solutions that can target millions of customers and enterprises in India that don’t have easy access to formal financial planning.

In a very short time span, global investors such as Omidyar Network, Blume Ventures and well known individual investors have supported Kaleidofin’s well thought out business model with $2.8 million in seed funding.

With its focus to harness mobile technology to deliver a paperless experience as well as its focus to harness technology and analytics to predict the right product for the right customer, Kaleidofin aims to become a leading FinTech player bringing financial solutions to everyone.

To know more about Kaleidofin, do visit our site https://kaleidofin.com/

What You’ll Do?

We are seeking extremely smart & independent senior developers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers. You will:

• Lead design and development of products working closely with business team
• Independently own software components and co-own entire applications with a small group of fellow developers
• Formally mentor junior software engineers on the team, reviewing design documents, (peer) reviewing code, providing design direction and guidance
• Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise ready android applications with architecture that is fast yet lean on the backend servers enabling them to support millions of users in parallel
• Establish strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption

Who You Need To Be? 


• 4+ years’ experience in android software development and delivery
• Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering (preferably computer science or sister branches) from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem-solving abilities. 

• All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
• Able to take ownership of working with multiple teams – Product, Back end, QA, Business from start of development to go-live.
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
• Skill set
  • Strong knowledge of UI architectural patterns like MVVM(preferable), MVC, MVP, data binding, activity & fragment lifecycle, recycler view, navigation component, layouts (constraint layout preferable), theming etc.
  • Should have actively used retrofit, work managers, android jetpack, Rx java, dagger, retrofit, android sdk, GIT/bitbucket, gradle/ant and very keen on exploring other proven tech stack.
  • Comfortable with test driven development in android with UI testing, instrumented unit testing and unit testing using junits and mockito
  • Have working knowledge of writing backend REST API’s (preferably in Java, spring boot & hibernate) without having to completely depend on backend engineers for delivery
  • Has worked in a fast paced agile organization building stateless and re-entrant/resumable android applications.
  • Should have worked on building applications across wide range of android devices and android versions.
  • Experience of Kotlin (especially kotlin coroutines and koin) is a big plus.