Startup - Key Team Mobile Engineer (React Native)

About the Role:

In this role, you will be the first mobile engineer and React Native expert on our team. You will directly impact our business by creating and maintaining a native Perpay app. You will work directly with our CTO, Head of Product, COO, and CEO to build a mobile-first experience. This is a full-stack role where you will not only build complex apps but also make impactful decisions on the product.

Responsibilities:

• Building smooth, stable, highly testable, and beautiful products with React Native, Redux, and Javascript
• Owning our native app from inception, design feedback, and implementation through the launch and support of new features.
• Collaborating with Product Designers, Product Managers, Backend Engineers, and Data Engineers to ensure we’re shipping the right things to our users and iterating based on their feedback.

What You'll Bring:

• The native app engineer should have built at least one sizable production application using React/Redux and ES6 JavaScript within the past year. We value an excitement to analyze data, solve tough problems, and deliver solutions in a fast-paced startup environment.
• 3+ years in software development experience, delivering commercial products to market
• BS in Computer Science or related field
• Enjoy working on mobile apps at all levels – from networking up to user interfaces and everything in between.
• Build high availability and resilient systems which can accept and report orders no matter the network or device conditions.
• Respond to customer feedback to improve our products.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, including the latest ECMAScript standards.
• An understanding of REST API-Driven Microservices & Micro Frontends
• Strong knowledge of how the web works and how to make it efficient (HTTP, caching, page rendering, mobile optimization, etc).
• Significant experience with React and the React ecosystem as well as unidirectional data flow patterns, preferably Redux.
• History of effectively collaborating with creative, technical, and business teams
• A passion for UX/UI design or familiarity with UX/UI principles
• An understanding of MVC web application frameworks, preferably Django
• The ability to pick up new technologies quickly, with software engineering fundamentals being valued more than familiarity with specific tools or languages
• A strong focus on writing and deploying clear, scalable, readable, and testable code
• A belief in Agile methodologies, while still knowing how and when to adapt them to fit a team and projects
• A firm understanding of data design and both relational database and NoSQL databases
• Bonus points for experience with AWS/Google Cloud and Docker