Web Developer

Senior Full Stack Engineer (React Native)

Who is Softway?

Softway is a business-to-employee solutions company.We work with businesses to impact the everyday behaviors, mindsets, and attitudes  and help drive valuable changes within.Faster innovation and more inclusion to lead cultural and  digital transformations and make human-focused technology to propel businesses. Our solutions include culture & inclusion services and products, technology experiences, and communications. Ultimately, we believe love is a business strategy.

Learn more: 

Visit us: https://www.softway.com/

Our Podcast : https://www.softway.com/laabs

Buy our book:  https://www.loveasabusinessstrategy.com/

Who are we looking for ?

Softway is on the lookout for a cross-platform mobile Engineer with hands-on experience on React Native. Someone passionate about building products that our customers love. You will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design, build and roll-out products that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.

A true-blue Engineer at heart, who constantly evolves and is on a continuous learning drive. Openness to explore different technologies and focused on solving, keeping the big picture in mind.

Responsibilities

Design and build applications for Android & iOS platform using React native

Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.

Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

Write clean, well-documented, and testable code

Follow best practices for mobile development and maintain high standards of software quality.

Familiar with Agile software development

Analyzing user needs and software requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.

Participating in code reviews and adhering to styles and standards for code quality

Work closely with other developers and stakeholders to ensure the timely completion of projects.

Coordinate with the cross-functional teams to build apps in stipulated time

Provide mentorship and guidance to junior developers, fostering their professional growth and enhancing team collaboration.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of experience in building React Native applications.

Basic knowledge in building native android or iOS applications.

In-Depth Knowledge of React, React Native, Javascript, TypeScript, Redux, Middlewares, Hooks, ECMAScript(ES6, ES7 etc.), Node, NPM, yarn and iOS & Android Build systems.

Experience working with Backend Web Services (like REST, GraphQL etc), Fetch API, Axios and knowledge of Databases.

Proficient experience in developing web applications using any React framework.

Familiarity working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts.

Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle , Android Studio.

Knowledge of type checking, unit testing, and code debugging.

Experience with app store and playstore distribution process

Logical thinking and strong analytical reasoning are a must.

Hands on experience in Object Oriented Programming, Database programming, Algorithms, Data Structures

Experience with database frameworks such as SQLite, Realm DB etc.

Proficient in code versioning tools including Git, and SVN.

Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

Familiarity with continuous integration

Working knowledge in TDD and Unit Testing

Great to Have

Passion to stay up-to-date with technology and trends

Knowledge in AWS

Why should you work at Softway? 

Softway’s cross-functional team structure, varied domains and flat hierarchy offer much exposure and learning from a bird's eye-view. You’d love the interaction with our talented folks. Softway gives you ample learning opportunities, pushing you while having your back. We work hard and party harder !! We encourage you to voice your opinions and yes, we actually listen. We take pride in having an ego-less workforce, it allows us to focus on what we’re good at - bringing solutions to life. In addition to a competitive  salary and great work culture, we offer GREAT FLEXIBILITY with Flexible Time Offs. 

Responsibilities :

• Design and write lots of bug-free, efficient, scalable, and reusable code
• Developing front-end architecture and ensuring responsiveness of the application
• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable products that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth. 
• Working on refactoring the current codebase and determining the root cause for the most complex software issues and developing practical, efficient, and permanent technical solutions
• Optimizing backend services to scale for a few hundred concurrent users
• Develop APIs and scripts using backend programming languages like Node.js and Nest.js 
• Dockerizing different services and automating our AWS infrastructure provisioning steps
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment. 
• Determine process improvements, and best practices, and develop new processes
• Mentor and coach other software engineers
• Integrating with third-party APIs and existing frameworks.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications and writing maintainable, scalable, and unit-testable code. Be passionate about the long-term stability, scalability, and reusability of shared components.
• Implement new requirements, handle change requests, and fix bugs for different releases. Deliver a high-quality and functioning code.
• Integrating solutions to enterprise software and legacy software
• Actively Participate in sprint ceremonies and work towards continually improving the process
• Prioritizes tasks and keeps manager up to date on status and roadblocks
• Help the junior engineers to unblock them and guide them on best design practices. Help in code reviewing on a regular basis
• Prepare thorough technical documentation which can be used by other engineers
• Stay up to date with new technologies and determine how to incorporate these into future platform capabilities

Requirements:

• Minimum 4-8+ years of overall experience developing B2B SAAS products 
• 3+ years of Experience working on React.js and its core principles
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Hands-on experience with Node.js and Express.js including state management like Redux
• Good understanding of NestJS, Next.JS, Tailwind CSS, Server-Side Rendering, Storybook/Bit, Bootstrap, and Material UI.
• Thorough understanding of modeling and scaling databases like MongoDB, DynamoDB or Firestore
• Deep understanding of object-oriented JavaScript and design principles and standards
• Hands-on experience in UI optimization best practice implementations
• Understanding of Serverless architecture like Lambda or Google Cloud functions
• Significant experience in developing high-performance, distributed, and scalable applications with container deployment (Docker and Microservices)
• Well-versed with collaboration, and Testing tools like Git, Swagger, and Cypress
• Proven experience with unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.
• Knowledge of open-source technologies and common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, PNPM etc.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Knowledge of Nginx and AWS services like S3, and EC2 will be helpful

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to Terraform, GItlab CI/CD, and GitOps is a plus
• A keen eye for UX has experience building complex B2B applications
• Comfortable working in a dynamic startup environment where experimentation is one of the most common practices for product innovation and improvements
• Basic understanding of the Figma Tool and app development via React Native
• Good experience with deploying applications on AWS & DevOps

Nice to Have:

• Great learning attitude and eagerness to take ownership
• Passionate personality with great enthusiasm for life outside of work
• Critical thinker and a problem solver who has a sense of urgency and wants an interesting job that pushes you out of your comfort zone.
• An innovator who is inspired by the endless ways in which everything we do can always be improved
• High-energy personality, with a strong and demonstrable work ethic

What we Offer:

• Competitive salary 
• Health Insurance
• Remote working environment
• Workday Swap
• Learning Culture