Mobile App Developer

A rapidly-growing company using the power of Machine Learning to build highly accurate fire prediction and detection technology is looking for a Mobile App Developer. The selected candidate will be responsible for scaling up a high-tech mobile/phone/tablet app together with a cloud-native back-end platform. The Silicon Valley-based company is on a mission to address the very grave issue of the rapidly rising human, financial, and environmental costs of uncontrollable wildfires. They have managed to raise $3.8mn+ during their Seed round of funding. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Build intuitive user experiences for users 
• Set up offline access for users in remote areas and build mesh networks of devices between firefighters on the line
• Work with Cloud-native back-end technologies to build services
• Collaborate with different teams to design, develop, deploy and maintain highly secure, scalable real-time and REST APIs
• Help to integrate different data sources and pipelines to gather and process different types of data, including geospatial data

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 3+ years of experience working as a mobile developer
• Expertise in working with React Native
• Knowledge of working with firebase, Websockets, etc
• Strong grasp over REST API backed development processes and UI designs
• Understanding of building real-time communication services with in-app chat/messaging/notification features
• Familiarity with technologies like AWS, EC2, Lambda, Fargate, Elastic Beanstalk, ElasticCache, etc
• Should possess a thorough knowledge of microservices design and deployment models
• Must be able to work with data pipelines to gather process data from various sources
• Expertise in technologies like Typescript, Node.js, Go. Postgres, MongoDB, etc., is required.
• Familiarity with the Git command line will be helpful
• Well-versed in object-oriented analysis and design
• Updated knowledge of design patterns and tech/language-specific patterns knowledge
• Knowledge of cloud-native and distributed systems design patterns
• Experience in building mapping/mobile mapping applications is preferred 
• Knowledge of geo data sources/APIs and formats 
• Familiarity with ArcGIS and ESRI platform