Staff Engineer (Mobile Cross Platform-React Native)

Key responsibilities include:

Building and maintaining mobile applications for iOS and Android using React Native

Writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code

Participating in code reviews and ensuring that all solutions are aligned with best practices

Collaborating with the development team to brainstorm new features and enhancements

Troubleshooting and debugging issues as they arise

Qualifications:

Strong knowledge of JavaScript, React, and React Native

Experience with building and deploying mobile applications for iOS and Android

Familiarity with mobile architecture patterns and front-end development best practices

Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills

Strong understanding of agile development methodologies

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Familiarity with related technologies such as Redux, and JSX

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

Job Responsibilities

• At least 1-3 Years of Mobile App Development experience in React Native Framework.
• Experience on web service integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML).
• Worked on Social API integration, Core location APIs, Payment gateway integration, Google Maps, Webviews, Push Notification Service.
• Must have strong experience in Javascript, React JS.
• Strong Knowledge of SQLite, MySQL, Firebase or similar databases.
• Strong experience in sensors like accelerometer & gyroscope and detecting / correcting memory usage issues.
• Knowledge of HTML5 & CSS3.

Required Skills

• Develop and enhance Mobile Application using HTML5, jQuery Mobile, JavaScript and CSS3.
• Define technical design for mobile application ecosystem (enterprise integration working with REST services, Vendor Mobile APIS, Push notifications, etc.)
• Integrate available plugins to utilize native phone APIs to handle push notifications, geolocation and payment processing (Google Wallet, Apple Pay, etc.)
• Potentially dig down into the native layer to develop custom plugins to achieve desired functionality if not supported by the chosen framework.
• Provide a creative source of ideas/solutions to address problems - strategic and tactical.
• Contribute to the improvement of the efficiency of through scripts, tool code, component development or methodology enhancement.
• Develops, maintains, monitors and tunes performance of the app.
• Collaborate with developers, project managers, business analysts and business users in conceptualizing, estimating and developing new software applications and enhancements.

Desired Skills

• 1-3  years of experience into React Native.
• Published 2 or more apps in the Google Play Store and Apple iTunes store.

Candidates who can join immediately would be preferred.

Note: If you are willing to apply on the above post kindly add your live projects Play Store/ App Store links in the resume.

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features

What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support

What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
• Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.
• Desired Skills and Experience
• Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

A Product based company is looking out for software engineers in the following categories.
If your profile matches any of the skills&experience categories and you are looking for a change,  Salary won't be a constraint for the right candidate

Category : 0 to 2 years of experience in mobile applications development for android or iOs platforms.

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Proven software development experience and Android skills development
• Proven working experience in Android app development and
• Have published at least one original Android app
• Experience with Android SDK
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

We are building an immersive platform for creators, from India, which can be used by creators to create content and engage their audience across the world. And we are looking for smart Mobile Engineers to build with us and scale.

Who we're looking for

• 3+ years of experience in building high quality apps, and 2+ years of experience in React Native end-to-end for Android and iOS.
• Solid foundation in JS, React Native and Mobile development.
• Architectural understanding of implementation, not just UI features.
• Identify and resolve performance and device specific issues.
• Implement best practices, and build frontend system from grounds up.
• Great taste in UI and UX

Key Responsibilities

• Build and deploy product features end to end. You will be responsible for breaking down high-level features into tasks.
• You will define and build the architecture for a mobile app so it scales, think patterns like composition, inheritance, renderProps, etc.
• Automate things wherever needed, think Fastlane CI/CD, automate screenshot testing across multi-resolution devices, etc.
• Setting up events for user, performance and error analytics, think GA, hotjar, Sentry, etc.
• Ensure architecture and Code quality that scales with team size
• Introduce right tools to the system when product scales, think GraphQL federation layer, etc.
• Participate in product and design ideation, collaborate with the team to implement high-quality features.
• Set the initial guidelines for tech culture in the company, as we grow.

Bonus

• Fluent in Java/Kotlin or Swift.
• Experience in building interactive features, like filters, face masks, finger-drawing on canvas, etc.
• End-to-end experience in building grounds up, implementation and deployment.
• Experience in building for large scale platforms like, messaging, social media, OTT, etc.
• You like working on hobby projects, or contributing to open source projects.

Perks

We are building a team of exceptional people. We will ensure that you grow with the growth of the organisation.

• become a part of our early team
• great salary, plus generous equity
• laptop of your choice
• empowered to build an amazing startup culture with us
• full ownership and massive growth opportunities
• and more...

If you're ambitious to build for millions of creators and users, apply now!