Senior React Native Developer

Job Title: Senior Android Developer (Java/Kotlin)

Experience: 8–15 Years

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Android Developer with extensive experience in building robust, scalable, and high-performance mobile applications. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Android development using Java and Kotlin, strong problem-solving abilities, and a passion for delivering high-quality user experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain advanced Android applications for mobile devices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Integrate mobile applications with backend systems using RESTful APIs.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify and fix bugs, optimize performance, and improve application scalability.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior developers.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in Android development.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in Android development using Java and Kotlin.
• Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience with Kotlin.

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of the Android platform and Android SDK across multiple OS versions.
• Proficiency in consuming RESTful web services and API integration.
• Solid knowledge of Android UI/UX principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Experience with popular Android libraries and open-source frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with build tools such as Gradle or Maven.

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit, Espresso, or Robolectric.
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD) or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Experience testing across multiple devices, screen sizes, and configurations.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automation, and static code analysis.

Performance & Optimization

• Experience in handling local data storage solutions.
• Strong understanding of multithreading and performance tuning.
• Ability to optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.

Tools & Technologies

• Version control systems such as Git.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar lifecycle management tools.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in distributed/global teams.
• Self-motivated and proactive with a strong learning mindset.
• Comfortable in fast-paced and dynamic environments.

Job Description

The primary role of this position will be to develop rich Mobile applications for a highly accessed and commercial digital content platform based on a high-performance CE device. We are looking for resources with Android and iOS technology skills for user facing application development using TypeScript and JavaScript FW competency. Your primary focus will be on developing application components and implementing them following well-known mobile development workflows.

Responsibilities:

• As an individual contributor understand the requirements, perform detailed design and coding, debugging, testing and release of the given modules.
• Development of new user-facing features using Mobile technologies, re-usable components and front-end libraries.
• Rapid development ability to build and demonstrate quick Mobile driven solutions.
• Work closely within a small team of experienced engineers to produce high-quality software products on a daring schedule.
• Demonstrate professional engineering practices including alignment to coding standards, producing design documentation, and supporting integration.
• Translating design and wireframes into high quality code, with an eye for performance on specific target devices.
• Write unit test and perform functional verification for the responsible modules
• Perform code reviews and sanity checks for the code developed.

Skills:

• Experience with React JS, React Native, JavaScript including DOM Manipulation and JavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of any of React Native and its core principles for developing and maintaining Android or iOS applications.
• Good knowledge of HTML5 and CSS
• Experience with modern front-end build pipelines and tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Agile Scrum based Development
• Ability to communicate effectively and make effective Presentations
• Solid understanding of MVC and stateless APIs & building RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field, and Minimum of 3 years of experience in commercial software development.
• Expertise in object-oriented design methodologies
• Experience working with medium to large scale code bases in small to large groups
• A passion for front end application development

Desirable:

• Timely and committed: Being able to work in a time constrained and demanding environment
• One who likes to push beyond own goals and makes way through challenges!
• Quality-driven, quick learner who is also a team player, can work independently without supervision

Minimum 2 years of working experience.

Can work on live projects of international clients.

Can handle multiple projects

Error-free coding.

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications

Objective-C, or increasingly, the Swift 3.0 programming language

Apples Xcode IDE

Frameworks and APIs like Foundation, UIKit, and CocoaTouch

UI and UX design experience

Apple Human Interface Guidelines

2D and 3D graphics frameworks like SpriteKit and SceneKit

OpenGL or Metal, iOS graphics APIs

Familiarity with iOS 10 and newer OS versions

A Git code repository technology

Strong Objective-C skills and inside-and-out knowledge of the iOS SDK.

Experience using and creating scalable web-based Restful APIs.

An emerging Social Media Aggregator is looking to hire iOS developers with 2-4 Years of experience.

Preferrably those who can join within 30 days can apply.

Requirements

• Proficient with Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa Touch.
• Strong familiarity with Xcode
• Experience with object-oriented design and programming concepts
• Must have knowledge of MVC, MVP design patterns.
• Excellent skills in debugging, problem-solving, source code analysis, and coding
• Ability to work effectively as an individual and within the team
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Desktop applications to back-end services
• Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools -GIT

Salary will not be a constraint for the right employee

1. Build pixel-perfect UIs across Android and iOS mobile platforms.
2. Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms. 
3. Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native. 
4. Developing and releasing complex, data-driven apps using React Native as the primary application framework. 
5. Proficiency writing Modern JavaScript, including ES6+, and JSX.
6. Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
7. Must be able to develop high-performance cross-platform apps using React-Native.

Intro:
Empala is an exciting new fintech launching in Singapore. Empala aims to help workers in the SEA region get access to their pay & helping them save for unexpected expenses. 

Job Description:

As fullstack developer at Empala you will be building and shaping our product. Our current offerings are centered around a React Native app (iOS & Android) with a serverless backend.

Empala is a flat and young organization, meaning every hand has a lasting impact on our product and our culture. You will report directly to the CTO and will in general be working closely with the founders. The job is of course mostly focused on building and maintaining our products, but in a small team you will have to wear a lot of hats, you could get involved in sales, marketing or anything in between, ideally you will see this as a positive thing and a chance to learn more about our users/customers/new areas of work. 

Benefits: 

At Empala we offer a competitive package that will be a mix of salary and employee stock options. We pay ourselves on demand meaning you can get paid for the work you have done when you wish it, be it daily, weekly, monthly or a combination of above. 

Requirements: 

The following requirements are a guideline, if you are missing some points but you are confident that you can master them in a reasonable amount of time there might still be a place for you at Empala. 

Preferred

• React Native 
• Backend tools and frameworks (express or any other, non JS is OK as well) 
• Cloud providers, AWS preferred 
• Git

Other requirements 

• Fluent in english 
• Proactive approach to problem solving 
• A hunger to get stuff done 

Nice to have: 

• Experience with Redux, GraphQL, Typescript, AWS Amplify
• Experience with SCRUM and/or TDD