Software Development Engineer II (App)

Company Description

Sciflare Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a 10+ years dynamic and innovative IT and software development company located in Chennai. With a strong presence in the US, Europe, and UAE, we specialize in various domains, including AI, Gaming, Banking, Fintech, Fantasy Sports, IT, E-commerce, Logistics, Healthcare, and On-Demand Services. Our team of over 40 talented professionals is dedicated to delivering cutting-edge solutions that drive our clients' success. Our top clients include Provident Bank, Century Financial, HDFC Life, The New Indian Express, Cisco, and EROS Group.

Join us and be a part of a company that thrives on creativity, technology, and excellence.

CHANCE TO WORK WITH APPS WITH 10LAKH CONCURRENT USERS IN GAMING INDUSTRY

Role Description

• You are a champion at Code reviews and Unit/Mock/integration Tests
• You have a strong sense of ownership of what you design and deploy
• You provide strong technical mentorship to team members
• You are an excellent team player
• You continuously learn and improve

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior React Native Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will lead and manage software development projects across diverse domains such as Gaming, Banking, Fintech, Fantasy Sports, IT, E-commerce, Logistics, Healthcare, and On-Demand Services. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of projects, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations.

Skill Sets

• Startup Experience: Proven track record of taking ownership of projects and delivering impactful results in a startup environment.
• Relevant Experience: 3-9 years of experience in mobile app development, with a strong focus on building high-performance, scalable, and maintainable React Native applications.
• React Native Expertise: Extensive experience with React Native, including deep knowledge of its ecosystem, libraries, and tools.
• JavaScript & TypeScript: Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, with experience in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Mobile Development: Hands-on experience in developing cross-platform mobile applications for both iOS and Android, with a strong understanding of platform-specific guidelines and best practices.
• State Management: Proficiency with state management solutions such as Redux, MobX, or Context API.
• APIs & Integration: Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints, with a strong understanding of asynchronous data fetching and state management.
• UI/UX Design: Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and experience working with designers to implement user-friendly interfaces and improve app usability.
• Testing & Debugging: Experience with mobile testing frameworks and tools such as Jest, Detox, or Appium. Skilled in debugging and performance optimization for mobile applications.
• Version Control & CI/CD: Experience with Git, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with tools like GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket.
• Agile Practices: Experience working in Agile environments, with a solid understanding of SCRUM and related methodologies.
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a remote or distributed team setting.
• Solutions-Oriented: Ability to tackle complex problems with a solutions-oriented mindset, adapting to the fast pace and challenges of startup life.

Responsibilities

• Scalable Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of scalable mobile architectures that ensure performance, reliability, and maintainability of React Native applications.
• Informed Decisions: Make architectural and technical decisions that align with the companys business objectives and technical strategy.
• Code Quality & Standards: Maintain high standards of code quality through regular code reviews, adhering to best practices and industry standards.
• User Experience: Work closely with UX/UI designers to ensure that applications provide a seamless and engaging user experience.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize mobile applications for speed, responsiveness, and efficiency, ensuring a smooth user experience across both iOS and Android platforms.
• Testing & Debugging: Implement comprehensive testing strategies to identify and address issues early in the development cycle, ensuring reliable and high-quality releases.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to understand user requirements and deliver features that meet user needs and project goals.
• Continuous Learning: Stay current with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in React Native and mobile development to drive innovation and improvement.
• Autonomy: Take ownership of projects and tasks, working independently and effectively without the need for constant supervision.
• Simplicity: Strive for simplicity and elegance in your code and solutions, avoiding unnecessary complexity.
• Proactive Problem Solving: Anticipate and address potential issues before they arise, contributing to the overall success of the team and project.
• Solution-Oriented: Focus on delivering practical solutions to problems, going beyond just writing code to contribute to the overall success of the product.

Life@Sciflare:

• An exciting & lively workplace gives you the chance to work in an environment where you may unleash your creativity and inventiveness to the best extent possible.
• Work in a collaborative setting where your cooperative team contributes new perspectives to your objectives and forges strong bonds.
• Growth mindset: You are nurtured through each stage of your professional advancement by learning and unlearning new things.

The role is office-based, working from Monday to Friday 9:00 AM to 06:00 PM & all Saturdays & Sundays are off.

Job Description: 

We are seeking an experienced React Native Developer with over 4 years of experience to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mobile development, particularly with React Native, and a passion for creating high-quality, scalable applications. You will play a key role in the development and maintenance of our cross-platform mobile applications, ensuring seamless integration with our web solutions and a superior user experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Mobile Development: Develop, maintain, and optimize React Native applications for both iOS and Android platforms.

• Integration: Work closely with back-end developers to integrate mobile applications with APIs and other services.

• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UI/UX designers, product managers, and other developers, to deliver a cohesive product experience.

• Performance Optimization: Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications by identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions.

• Code Reviews: Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and company guidelines.

• Testing: Write and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure the reliability and robustness of the application.

• Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation for code and APIs.

• Stay Updated: Keep up with the latest industry trends and technologies, and continuously improve the development process.

Qualifications:

       •  Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field        (or equivalent work experience) 

• Experience: 4+ years of experience in mobile development, with at least 3 years of hands-on experience with React Native.

• Skills: Proficiency in JavaScript and strong experience with React Native, including working with state management libraries (such as Redux or MobX) and navigation libraries.

• Platform Knowledge: Solid understanding of mobile development for both iOS and Android, including platform-specific considerations.

• Performance: Experience with performance optimization techniques for mobile applications.

• Version Control: Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git).

• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a team environment and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Preferred Skills:

• TypeScript: Experience with TypeScript for type safety and better code maintainability.

• UI/UX Understanding: Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and ability to collaborate effectively with designers.

• Back-End Knowledge: Basic understanding of back-end technologies and APIs to facilitate seamless integration.

• Testing Frameworks: Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest or Mocha.

• CI/CD: Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

• App Store Deployment: Experience with deploying applications to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store

As a Flutter developer, you’ll work on our mobile app that is built with Flutter. You’ll help to plan and develop new features, review other people’s code, fix bugs, help in technological and business decisions, and support the internal team. You will take initiative to run projects/features smoothly.

Requirements:

• At least 1 year of Flutter experience in a production environment
• At least 3 years of industry experience

Nice to have:

• Having the knowledge required to write native plugins in Swift or Kotlin is an asset
• Having a background in native iOS and/or Android development is a big plus (e.g. experience with Xcode, Gradle, Android Studio).
• Familiar with one or more CI/CD environments: CircleCI, Gitlab, Github, etc. Knowing your way around Fastlane to build & deploy your app comes in handy
• Experience in working with state management libraries such as Riverpod

• Familiar with writing tests for your application: unit tests, widget tests and integration tests
• UI / UX design principles
• Good understanding of coding best practices and design patterns
• Understanding of security technologies (encryption, authentication, OAuth 2.0)
• Contribution to open source projects
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed

Job Responsibilities:

- Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.

- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle: concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support.

- Diagnose performance issues, fix bugs (including crashes and ANRs) to increase the functionality of the application.

- Write well designed, testable, efficient code.

- Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications

- Prepare and produce releases of software components

- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

Desired Profile :

B.Sc. (CS or IT) + MCA/ BCA + MCA/ B.Tech. /B.E. (CS or IT) .

Experience required- 1 - 2 years

- Subject Proficient in Java/Kotlin programming

- Knowledge and experience in Flutter Framework and DART programming

- Hands on experience in using RESTful APIs

- Hands on experience in designing and developing micro-services architecture and containers

- Object oriented analysis, UML and design using common design patterns.

- Hands on experience in development IDE Android Studio, Android SDK, Firebase Test Lab

- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

- Familiarity with push notifications

- Familiarity with IOS integration with Flutter

- Experience using GitHub or similar environment

- Complete understanding of SDLC

- Experience with Agile development

- Experience with Material Design and Android UI design principles, patterns and best practices

- Good knowledge of adding third-party libraries for Eg. Twilio

- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

React Native Role :

We are looking for a qualified React Native developer to join our Engineering team. Ultimately, you should be able to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications.

What is expected of our App Developers?

1. Understand the healthcare context and identify key problems
2. Innovate, evaluate, and deploy various android and IOs Features that can solve complex healthcare needs
3. 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 general process. An understanding of React Native best practices and acommitment to following them.
4. Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of applications.
5. A positive mindset and can-do attitude.
6. Forensic attention to detail.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS.
2. Experience with React Js, React Native, JavaScript including DOM Manipulation and

JavaScript object model.

1. Thorough understanding of React Native and its core Principles.
2. Hands on experience on React Native Framework at least 2 years.
3. Good Knowledge of HTML5, CSS.
4. Familiarity with code versioning tools (Such as Git, SVN or Mercurial)
5. Familiarity with RESTful APIs
6. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
7. Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Web pack, NPM etc.

10.Experience with Native Mobile app deployment on App store and google play store.

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer II (SDE2) to help deliver high visibility and impact features for the ChakraHQ Platform. ChakraHQ Platform is the world's first Omnichannel Process Automation Platform. Imagine AWS but for operations and business teams; built on cutting edge technology stacks, to solve problems for modern businesses.

Technology specialists at ChakraHQ are at the core of the company's decisions and vision. As an SDE2, you will contribute to the design and development of the core technology stack of the ChakraHQ Platform. Working closely with Engineering, Product Management, Sales and Customer Success you will take ownership to develop features, plugins and custom fixes that will materially impact customer’s and ChakraHQ’s business. You will also be responsible for maintaining a streamlined build and CI/CD system. You will help coordinate the incorporation of upstream features into the ChakraHQ Platform. 

Technologies you will work with: React-Native, Javascript, Android, iOS, PostgreSQL, Serverless, AWS, Google Cloud

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain features, services, products that are part of ChakraHQ
• Own delivery of said features and services
• Own success of the products by tracking its lifecycle with customers
• Build systems that scale horizontally
• Implement clean and modern mobile interfaces that provide an excellent user experience. 
• Write automated tests to ensure code quality
• Work with customers to build a product roadmap
• Work with sales & marketing to sell your product to end-users
• Work as an integral part of an agile software development team to build features end-to-end
• Support those features in the ChakraHQ production environment by participating in an on-call rotation

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
• 3+ years of experience working on teams to develop and deploy web or mobile applications
• Expertise with Javascript
• Knowledge of frameworks such as React-Native is a big plus
• Ability to write code compatible across browsers and other clients
• Good understanding of backend systems i.e. web services, APIs from a consumer perspective
• Proficiency with git and Github workflows
• Expertise with test-driven development and automated testing
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and fluent English
• Open to learn and work on new technologies

###Are you a React Native Developer?

This is not a usual job description where after reading the roles and responsibilities you are still unclear about the work you’ll be doing and how your contributions will impact the customers.

Here, we’ll tell you exactly what you’re getting into and you decide for yourself if we’re worthy of your application.

Deal? Let’s do it!

About Us:

StockPe is gamifying financial education for young Indians thereby making them financially educated. We are a small team of awesome people who are in love with finance. 

Team, culture & stuff!

Oh, this is our favorite part. We’ve seen companies that write 'templatized' BS for this section; stuff that’s never followed in reality. Not us. Here are some of our core values to give you a sense of who we are as a team:

• Customer is our religion

• Freedom and Responsibilities - We give you a deadline and you have the freedom to do it according to you

• The team is above everything

• Simplify and innovate - No complex process in StockPe, always make it simple through innovation

• Experiment and think big - Nothing is exciting than this, constantly experiment with things and think out of the box

• Shap up or ship out - We provide weekly feedback on your performance to help you grow

Not convinced yet? Okay, here’s the fun stuff:

• We don't track time - Flexible working hours :

• Remote first - Work from anywhere

• The young and geographically distributed team across India

• Save & invest - We help you invest some portion of your stipend for your future

• We do parties and crack lame jokes

Your Impact:

As a financial education platform, we expect you to have a holistic understanding of finance/capital markets (Stocks, etc).

StockPe is a highly collaborative environment and we are looking for a capable team member, skilled in eliciting, capturing, and integrating ideas into our mobile app. We expect strong logic building and great attention to time management.

Responsibilities:

• Build pixel-perfect, smooth UIs across mobile platforms.

• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.

• Maintain and write high-quality code to ensure the product is seamless and bug-free.

• Participate in Agile development, POC development, brainstorming, etc.

• Coordinate and collaborate with other members for smooth and swift development.

Skills required:

• Expert-level knowledge of React Native

• Good working knowledge of state management library Redux

• Good knowledge of REST APIs and WebSockets

• Good grasp of JavaScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax

• Experience in 3rd party integration

• An avid follower of the best practices, optimization strategies, and design pattern