Senior React Native Developer

Student Success Agency is a social impact enterprise that is focused on building a digital stack of services, opportunities, and experiences for US-based school systems that need to expand and engage their communities virtually.

We are a fully remote team with ~15 full time members and 200+ 1099s who serve over 500 schools across 20 states. We are 100% independent from venture capital and outside institutions allowing us to limit distractions and focus on doing meaningful work. Our mission is to empower every person to harness their agency and fulfill their potential to discover new horizons for themselves and civilization. We are well-positioned to make a transformational difference in education and we are looking for the right people who want to join our passionate team of educators, operators, and designers.

About the role

You will be working on the Winbox, our student support platform. The Winbox empowers support service providers like mentors, tutors, and mental health professionals within US publc school districts and their local communities to identify and deliver opportunities and support services to students.

Today, we focus on 7th - "13th"+ grades. We do not work with elementary schools or elementary aged students at the moment.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who has a strong sense of independence and initiative that is comfortable with a culture of work where roughly 70 to 80% of your time is independent and individual development, with the other 20% being connecting and collaboration with the rest of the team.

Your Technical Responsibilities:

• Architecting, building, and maintaining new features on React Native (w/Expo)
• Instrumenting and optimizing performance of our React Native Application on iOS and Android
• Using tools like Browserstack to test for and ensuring that people are receiving a consistent user experience across a large set of iOS and Android device models and network conditions.
• Investigating and resolving reported crashes, bugs and drops in performance.
• Collaborating with designers, developers, other team members and end users to hone in on great user experiences.
• Advising and communicating API needs to other developers to ensure that you can be successful
• Helping to evaluate, organize, and maintain Continuous Integration and App Store deployment strategies.

What it's like to work with the team:

• You are expected to collaborate with designers, developers, other team members and end users to hone in on great user experiences.
• You will directly participate in shaping features during the design process. This means that you will be present and participating within figma and in the design process to understand the nuances of every feature and experience in order to intimately understand how you should build a feature, without a long list of written specs.
• You will be responsible for creating, estimating, updating, and tracking your own work within Notion. You are not an outside contractor and there are no project managers to do this for you.

Pre-reqs:

• Be prepared to share a portfolio or set of examples that demonstrate the products and features that you have worked on.
• Have a "Just in Time" desire to learn and grow in your skillset and expertise.

Bonus points if:

• You have contributed to at least one production-grade product that you helped originate
• You have strong front-end style and animation experience
• You have prior experience in gaming or with "gamification"
• You are familiar with or have experience with Ruby on Rails

Benefits

• Make your own hours. Need to take your little one to kindergarten every morning? No sweat at all. Want to be there for Soccer practice? Go for it!
• No limit to time off. We respect everyone's commitment to our work and to each other's time.
• $500/mo budget towards an Individual Choice BCBS Healthcare Plan
• WFH budget

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