React Native Lead

tl;dr

🤓 An early employee of an experienced team. A lot of impact and opportunities to learn or deepen new technologies like GPT3, Amazon Rekognition, FFmpeg and more.

💰 Fixed Salary + Stock-Options

About

Blend is an AI-driven graphic design tool for entrepreneurs that removes decision making to create professional-grade product catalogs. Entrepreneurs can now create product marketing material in a few seconds to stand out and sell better online. Instead of manipulating pixels, users edit objects. Deep learning models ensure the translation of pixels into objects.

What you'll do

Blend app, an AI-driven design tool, will help its users create stunning designs within seconds.

To help us get to our vision faster, we are looking for an Engineer to join us on our app development front. This developer:

• 👩‍💻 Would work on our Flutter codebase writing cross platform code for both Android and iOS.
• 🎨 Work closely with product and design to create amazing user experiences.
• 🐜 Watch out and fix production issues, and target on running a smooth experience.
• 📈 With the help of the rest of the team, you maintain a great app with few bugs and trustable analytics: KPIs, logs, crash logs, boards.

Above all, you would be the owner of the app side of things. Drive it to success. That will be the goal.

We are tech/langugage agnostic when it comes to developers, so the only hard requirement is to be smart and passionate. That being said, having the skills below will be an advantage:

• Experience working with Flutter and/or Dart
• Experience with React/React Native (makes it easier to pick up flutter)
• Experience with Native app development (sooner or later you might get to a point where you need to write native modules as well)

How we work:

• Team: you are humble, open to challenge, and like to help others grow. The most important is the progress of the team and the product.
• Impact: you can prioritize your time to build what will give users superpowers or wow them.
• Learning: learning and sharing knowledge makes you happy. At Blend, this holds true as a team, with machine learning, and with our users.

Hiring process:

3-steps process:

• Screening call
• Technical Interview
• Cultural fit interview with the founders

Location      : Baner, Pune

Notice period : Immediate to 30 Days

• Proven software development experience
• Proven working experience in iOS development
• A deep familiarity with Objective-C and Swift
• Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text
• Have published at least one app in the Store
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Knowledge of JNI, security algorithms
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces
• Knowledge of the open-source iOS ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, SVN
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Solid understanding of the mobile development life cycle
• Good to have: Experience in working on cross platform UI framework such as React Native or Cordova.

We are looking for a React Native developer who can build a performant mobile app on both the iOS and Android platforms. We’re looking to take our dashclicks.com web app and turn portions of it into an amazing mobile app.

You will be responsible for architecting and building this app, 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:

• Transition existing React web apps to React Native.
• Build pixel-perfect UIs across both mobile platforms (iOS and Android).
• Design and develop highly complex application components, and integrate software packages, programs and                reusable objects 
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Make use of additional JavaScript libraries such as Redux to make asynchronous API calls as well as improve the           performance of the apps
• Perform real-time monitoring and fixing crashes.
• Plan the data and presentation layer of the applications’ front-end Implement pixel-perfect UI's that match designs.    
•  Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Write unit and integration tests. Work with native modules when required.

Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in React Native (iOS and Android).
• Have a deep knowledge of Redux architecture
• Must have worked with Firebase Database and Firm grasp of the JavaScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• Strong understanding of back-end and front-end technologies such as NodeJS, React.JS, Web Socket, Pub-Sub, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS and CSS-In-JS.
• Knowledge of object-oriented programming
• Ability to write well-documented, clean JavaScript code
• React assumptions concepts like Virtual DOM, JSX, Component State and component lifecycle 
• 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
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like crash reporting and analytics
• Knowledge of functional or object-oriented programming
• Experience with automated testing suites, like (Jest or Mocha)
• Understanding of mobile UI frameworks like Native Base, UI Kitten, Material Kit etc.
• Experience implementing authorization and authentication workflows using JWT, OAuth2 etc.

Things that make us the World’s leading white-label marketing software development company:

• We do not outsource any of our fulfillment services.
• We offer a fully white-labeled dashboard allowing our users’ clients to log in and see their accounts’ progress.
• We offer educational and prospecting tools to help businesses generate growth and revenue.

What do we bring to the table?

• Competitive base pay and benefits package with exciting growth plans.
• A chance to work with professionals across various areas of expertise on a product loved by 30,000+ marketing agencies worldwide.
• 9 hours a day & 5 days a week working structure.
• A chance to learn & grow in a fast-paced environment, driving transformational growth for our brand.
• Fully remote work offers you the chance to balance your professional and personal life.

Come join us on this journey, we're looking forward to talents like you.

• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work. Every day is a challenge to ensure you are performing to the expectations you and your team have agreed upon, both in regards to estimates and to the general process.
• Ability to identify with the goals of FullStack clients and dedicate yourself to delivering on the commitments you and your team make to them.
• An understanding of React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.
• Ability to work through new and difficult React Native issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of React Native applications.
• A positive mindset and can-do attitude.
• 2+ years of professional experience working with React Native.
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• Architect, build and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
• 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.
• Write unit and integration tests.
• Release applications to the Apple and Google Play stores.
• Work with native modules when required.
• Work as part of a small team, which will include other React Native developers, a project manager, QA professional, and a designer.