React Native Engineer

A Little About the Job

This role will give you end to end involvement in product development, working with our product managers and designers as part of the delivery team. As a React Native engineer your focus will be on our mobile app, but being adaptable is essential. You’ll be as happy crafting code that meets agile delivery commitments as you are planning what systems we’ll use long-term to support our rapid growth.

A Little More About the Job (Responsibilities):

Delivery - Working with the cross functional development team to ship new features and enhancements for our customers, and improvements to make things work better behind the scenes.

Quality - Writing elegant, maintainable code using modern industry best practices and taking a rigorous approach to testing. You’ll review code and have your code reviewed.

System Improvement - You’ll have the opportunity to work across our stack, explore and evaluate new platforms and technology, and share in key architectural decisions.
Product - We value collaborative working and you’ll work closely with product managers and designers. Your technical and product input will help make sure we deliver value with each sprint.

We make time for learning and growth. You’ll have the chance to expand your skills by working in new areas, collaborating with domain experts, and taking part in formal training.

UX - From cross platform customer journeys to usability improvements. You’ll work with the product design team to create a world leading product experience.
Process - You’ll take part in backlog grooming, sprint planning and review meetings and support our quest to constantly improve how we work. You’ll be responsible for making sure development tasks are accurately specified, tracked and completed.

Requirements:

• Experience with modern JavaScript and strong working knowledge and commercial experience of React Native mobile application development.

• A minimum of 3 years professional software development experience.

• Experience building on GraphQL or REST APIs, ideally within React / React Native.

• Experience integrating third-party libraries and APIs and an understanding of when to use them or build your own.

• An understanding of React and React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.

• Experience releasing applications to the Google Play and Apple App stores.

• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of React Native applications.

• Experience with Node and serverless functions is a bonus.

• Demonstrable experience picking up new platforms and programming languages and solving novel technical challenges.

• Technical leadership - You’re passionate about technical decisions and keep up to date with new developments and techniques - If you think something can be done better then you push for it. You also encourage others when they try to innovate.

• A user focused mindset. You’re motivated to deliver benefits to customers and you consider value to customers and the business when managing your time.

• Hands on experience with agile development practices and tools: e.g. User Stories, BDD/TDD, CI/CD, and automated testing.

• A natural collaborator. You demonstrate humility and compassion working with others to arrive at the most effective solutions.

• Appreciation of and commitment to our company values: Passion, Rigour, Innovation, Ambition and Kindness.

• Love of pizza.