React Native Developer

Job Functions / Responsibilities:              

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to define and implement new features for our iOS mobile applications.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code using React Native and JavaScript, ensuring the best possible performance and user experience.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in the application to maintain its stability and reliability.
• Optimize mobile applications for performance and responsiveness.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to improve the mobile application continuously.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• Work closely with QA teams to ensure rigorous testing of the application.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers when necessary.

Skills:

·        4-6 years of professional experience in mobile application development.

·        Strong proficiency in React Native and JavaScript.

·        Extensive experience with iOS development, including Swift and Objective-C.

·        Knowledge of native iOS libraries and frameworks. Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.

·        Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integration.

·        Solid understanding of mobile app design principles and user interface guidelines.

·        You can work independently on solving complex problems and troubleshooting cryptic

bugs

·        Fluent in both spoken and written English

·        You're a team player and pragmatic programmer.

·        Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

·        Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality code.

·        Knowledge of Redux or similar state management libraries.

·        You're an avid clean coder, and refactoring is part of your normal workflow. 

1) UI Design skill

2) Publishing Knowledge about the app store/ Play Store

3) Google map integration

4) Payment gateway integration

5) Firebase integration (push notification and crash report)

6) API Integration in Restfull API

7) Individual project handling (added advantage)

BitClass, a VC funded startup in edtech, is 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 Android app to React Native.

• Firm grasp of the JavaScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• 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
• Experience with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha

About the Role

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions. 

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver features both on Android and iOS.
• Create a roadmap of tasks to be delivered for both iOS and Android applications in sync, such that new features go to the end-user at same time. 
• Lead the design of Android and iOS applications in a modular fashion with reusable components.
• Proactively identify issues related to memory consumption, battery drain and multi-threading in the application by planning regular tests and analysis.
• Deliver Android and iOS applications with integration to backend services deployed on the cloud with high quality and responsiveness. 
• Create strong practices around test driven development, automating delivery of apps to the marketplace with strong CI/CD practices.
• Manage a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 50%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience in building apps that have been released to the Play Store(Android) and Appstore(iOS). 
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in mobile application teams.
• Strong knowledge of Android, Kotlin, iOS, Swift, Objective C and working with MVVM, MVP, MVC patterns.
• Experience building mobile applications which lean heavily on connecting to cloud services to gather data and stream videos/content. 
• Working knowledge of Xamarin or Flutter (cross platform frameworks) is highly preferred. 
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.

Good understanding of Java Programming language

- Hands-on experience in the full life cycle of Android application development

- Strong knowledge in RESTFUL web services

-Sound Knowledge of Android SDK's- Having a strong knowledge of building UI

- Having an understanding of working with third-party libraries

- Tools : Android Studio, Eclipse

-Good to Have : Knowledge and understanding of Kotlin

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.