Senior React Native Developer (iOS/Android)

Role & responsibilities

• Support our cross-platform mobile apps, helping find ways to architect and build new features in extensible, testable, efficient, and maintainable ways.
• Define, code, test and deploy new features with an emphasis on extensibility and performance.
• Utilize the latest techniques with React Native, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern front-end development practices
• Work cross functionally with the Product Management, UX Design, Engineering and Quality Assurance teams
• Ensure best development practices, participate in code reviews, and strive to innovate in mobile development
• Work independently on deliverables but also participate in a very collaborative environment with teammates from various backgrounds coming together to solve challenging problems as a team. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 7 years work experience and a 4-year Engineering degree required
• 5+ years of overall development experience within a commercial enterprise/product environment
• 2+ years' experience with React Native development- and a passion for it!
• Experience with Android native development using Kotlin or Java OR Experience with iOS development in Swift or Objective-C
• Mastery of JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native, design patterns, Git and modern mobile toolchains.
• Experience collaborating with other senior developers and architects across multiple platforms in an Agile environment.
• Extensive hands-on experience creating custom UI components, consuming RESTful APIs, designing protocols, implementing interfaces, animations, and performance optimization.
• Understanding the nuances of React component lifecycle, state management, responsive layouts, and how to leverage best practices to create adaptive interfaces for both phone and tablet.
• Familiarity with common 3rd party libraries for testing and development such as Expo and other React Native ecosystem tools.
• Experience in mentoring and coaching other developers and teams with best practices.
• Strong communicator with experience working on globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with JavaScript/TypeScript on the server (Node.js)
• Direct Experience deploying applications to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store
• Experience with native module development in React Native