Senior React Native Developer

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

About Company

‘Good Good Piggy’ is an Ed-FinTech start-up that encourages the new generation to develop the life-skill of managing the entire money management equation digitally, because the future of money is digital. We recognize the importance of reinforcing good behaviour, habits and skills from a young age.

Job Description

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.

• Total Experience: 2 to 5 Years
• Notice Period: 30-45 Days
• Preferred Location: Delhi NCR
• Role: Full Stack Developer
• Industry Type: Ed-FinTech
• Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
• Role Category: Software Development

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Setup/configure CI/CD pipeline leveraging AWS native services or traditional tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory, SonarQube, etc)
• Deploy applications on AWS platform leveraging AWS platform services like EC2, EBS, S3, CodeArtifact etc
• Integrate third-party API's.
• Write unit and integration tests.
• Release applications to IOS 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.

Skills And Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience working with React Native.
• Experience working with Swift, Java required.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work.
• 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.
• Working with Agile framework especially is necessary
• Organizational and leadership abilities
• Excellent communication skills
• Problem-solving aptitude

Education

B.Tech/B.E./MCA or Equivalent

• 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.

• Designing and building mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform.
• Collaborating with the design team to define app features.
• Ensuring quality and performance of the application to specifications.
• Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
• Fixing application bugs before the final release.
• Publishing application on App Store.
• Maintaining the code and atomization of the application.
• Designing and implementing application updates

Mandatory: Hands on experience working with Java or Kotlin. Very strong logical skills. Good hold on operating system concepts and data structure. Experience with web services , SQL Lite , camera kit , image caching concepts, keychain , past experience working with one of the design patterns like MVC / MVVM / MVP , network check implementation.

Good to have:  Rx-Swift experience , video / image filter experience , media player usage , complex UX effects , couch-db , RealM.Knowledge of GIT management , Continuous Integration and Continuous Development practices.

Soft Skills: Strong communication skills , high spirited , eager to learn , able to perform in a high pressure environment