Senior App Developer – React Native

Job Summary:

Wadhwani Foundation is looking for a  Senior Mobile Application Developer to drive the development and enhancement of our mobile clients (iOS and Android). The developer will design the entire app lifecycle right from PoC stage until delivery and post launch support. In this role, you will design and build, high performance, user-friendly and secure mobile applications.

As a Senior Mobile Application developer, you will work closely with engineering and product teams to deliver a seamless mobile experience. You will play a key role in ensuring that our mobile apps meet high standards for usability, performance, security across both platforms and serves beneficiaries in multiple countries.

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead development and delivery of cross-platform (Kotlin Multiplatform, React Native) mobile applications.
• Translate UI/UX designs into clean, efficient, and reusable code following best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain application.
• Mentor junior engineers, enforce coding standards, and promote best practices in mobile development.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience with App Store and Google Play deployment processes, including provisioning, certificate management, release automation, beta testing and compliance.
• Experience developing reusable or cross-platform components using technologies like Kotlin Multiplatform, , React Native or Flutter.
• Integrate apps with backend APIs, ensuring secure data handling and high performance.
• Proficient in debugging, profiling, and optimizing performance for mobile applications on both platforms.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, manage multiple priorities, and deliver on deadlines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders.

Technical Expertise:

• 5~8 years of professional experience in mobile application development, with a strong track record on Kotlin multi-platform and React Native.
• Should be well versed with the concepts of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
• Must be able to demonstrate strong knowledge of UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
• A sound understanding of the full mobile development life cycle and should have published multiple native apps.
• Experience with relational databases (SQLite), web services and API integration.
• Exposure to internationalization/localization for multi-country and multi-lingual deployments.
• Ability to evaluate and adopt new frameworks, libraries, and tools to keep the technology stack up to date.

Responsibilities include:

1. Designing, developing & deploying the product

2. Work as part of a team to build React Native iOS / Android applications

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

4. Translating wireframes and PSD designs into functional responsive apps, Implement pixel perfect UI's that match designs

5. Binding UI elements to JavaScript object models, work with native modules when required

6. Creating RESTful services with Node.js

7. Developing scalable web architectures

8. Working in a cross-functional team to deliver a complete user experience

9. Creating unit and integration tests to ensure the quality of code

10. Being responsive to change requests and feature requests

11. Writing code that is cross-platform and cross-device compatible

12. Co-ordinating end-to-end implementation

13. Release applications to iOS and Google Play stores

What you need to have:

• Minimum 2 years of experience. Individuals with a higher degree of expertise will be considered for senior opportunities
• Minimum Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineer or related fields
• Experience working with and presenting summaries of large datasets
• Experience working with JavaScript , Reactnative and frontend frameworks
• Experience on system designs and architecture.
• Working experience with large, complex Enterprise dashboards is a plus.
• Passionate about innovating, learning new skills and technology
• Comfortable working on frontend and backend tasks is a plus

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.

What you need to have:

• Bachelors/ Masters degree in computer science, Engineering or a related subject
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in mobile application development
• Proficiency in Problem Solving, Data Structures, and Algorithms
• Strong knowledge of design concepts and constraints on mobile platforms
• Proficiency in Java/ Android/ Excellent in Kotlin & Flutter language
• Demonstrable experience building excellent mobile apps that are currently in Google PlayStore
• MVP/ MVVM architecture
• Firebase services
• Local databases (SQLite, firebase DB)/ORM (Green DAO, Room)
• Experience with a scalable architecture, while maintaining a hands-on role with code development
• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills and Setting & following targets and timelines
• High proficiency in Android frameworks and core components
• Bug fixing

• Part of the core team responsible for powering the various apps and moving parts of the product
• Architect, build and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
• Integrate third-party API's.
• Release applications to the Apple and Google Play stores.
• Design new and re-design existing user-facing features
• Design, build and own key technology decisions and implementations
• Wear multiple hats - that of an architect, developer or product owner
• Collaborate with other team members to find optimal solutions and engineering workarounds based on resource/time constraints
• Communicate development status and features to the rest of the team members
• Manage interactions with designers, testers and other developers
• Define and enforce front end coding standards, accessibility and other technical standards

Required Skills :

• 4 - 6  years of overall software development experience
• 3+ years of professional experience in Native React
• Highly proficient in rendering components with Native APIs
• Highly proficient in JavaScript, modern JavaScript, HTML, 
• Highly proficient in one or more libraries (e.g. Redux, React Router, etc) for state managing and routing in addition to React.
• Proficient in using Git as a control system 
• Experience with collaborative code development in small agile teams and managing releases (Git, Gerrit, Continuous Integration)
• Outstanding understanding of software design and architecture
• 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.