A U.S.-based company that is enabling users to save, catalog, and share their favorite dining establishments, coffee shops, and hangout spots, is looking for a Lead Mobile Engineer. The engineer will play a crucial role in bringing the company vision to life by efficiently and continuously developing, testing, and maintaining the mobile application. The company is committed to using the power of modern technology to unite individuals and improve real-life relationships with friends, family, and the community. The company has managed to securely raise more than $7.8mn during their Seed round of funding.
Job Responsibilities:
- Engage with features and designs that are ready to be worked on
- Carry out the intelligent translation of business requirements to the application logic to polish some aspects of some features that are only vaguely documented
- Help with maintaining the current code base by making wise refactoring choices and fixing production issues
- Create a solution within the software stack to fulfill the business requirements by translating them into application logic and functionalities
- Build/develop the aforementioned application logic and functionalities into the cloud environment and mobile app using React Native and TypeScript
- Make sure to conduct rigorous testing; don't publish errors that ought to have been found during development
- Review the code in other developers' pull requests, and test the code directly
- Maintain the Firebase back-end service for data, authentication, and other functions
- Participate in timely communication (through Slack) during working hours and dependable standup and code review cycle check-ins
- Provide a reasonable understanding of the business requirements, and whenever something is unclear or there are any doubts, always seek clarification
- Match our design system and product UI designs pixel-perfectly using Figma, where all styling is described in great detail
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- At least 4+ years of relevant experience as a mobile engineer
- Prolific experience working with React Native and TypeScript
- Must have the sound judgment to know when to advocate for or recommend alternate (easier) solutions to issues when certain features or designs demand a lot of work
- Extensive knowledge of modern React and React Native (v0.70.x), including Hooks and other modern platform features
- Prolific understanding of iOS build toolchains like Fastlane, including troubleshooting Podfile bugs and other package conflicts
- Demonstrable experience working with Firebase stack, including Firestore, Auth, Auth, Cloud Functions and triggers, Phone Auth, Pushes, Remote Config, Storage, Dynamic Links, and Cloud Messaging
- Nice to have some solid understanding of Google Maps on the mobile client, and/or the Google Places API
- Work together with an English-speaking team on a variety of projects, such as pair programming an intricate problem, asynchronous written technical documentation, real-time Slack, etc.
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken