Job Description:
Senior Front-End Engineer
The partner is a stealth start-up working on a platform to help teams unlock their data investments to power real-time, personalized user experiences. The client has raised a large seed round from top VCs (first investors in DataBricks, & Robinhood) and has years of runway. The team has traction with well-known companies and is hiring Senior Front-end Engineers.
Job Summary
We are looking for a senior front-end engineer with a proven track record of developing React Native mobile applications. As we are a small but growing team, you will be responsible for the maintenance and support of existing app features as well as planning and scoping new feature additions and iterations.
The Senior Front-end engineer will work closely with our team to launch a meditation and lifestyle application. Applicants should have a proven track record working on large-scale, consumer-facing products with complex and intuitive UX/UI. Applicants should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, where each individual has a lot of influence and responsibility to deliver. The Senior Front-end Engineer will play a vital role in the development and release of this application. There is an existing global community keenly awaiting the launch of this application, so the app will have an immediate, engaged user base.
The AWS backend is built using a serverless approach using AppSync (GraphQL), DynamoDB, Cognito and Lambda. Local development and stack deployment are managed using the Serverless framework, and CI pipelines have been implemented using CircleCI and Bitrise. Experience with any of these is a big plus.
Candidate Profile
You are passionate about creating beautiful, modern, and intuitive user interfaces on mobile devices. You are comfortable with cross-platform development (for iOS and Android) and enjoy solving the challenges that come with such a codebase. You understand API architecture and can take a data model and translate it into reusable and flexible components. You enjoy shipping clean, readable and reusable code. You are comfortable working on a distributed team spread across time zones and cultures. You are excited to use technology to have a positive impact on the world as a whole.
Core Responsibilities:
- Take over responsibility for the front-end development and maintenance, and work with our team to continue testing and releasing features
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
- Collaborate with the engineering and design teams, contribute to the definition of specifications for new features, and own the development of those features
- Guide the team regarding constraints and best practices in a mobile environment
- Proactively identify and solve bottlenecks; fix bugs and performance issues
- Maintain code quality, organization and automatization
- Ensure testing strategy is followed within the team - for unit and integration test
Skills and Requirements
- Proven experience in mobile app development
- Strong experience with React and React Native
- Strong experience in either IOS or Android native development
- Experience with Typescript, Node.js, GraphQL and REST
- Proficient with code versioning tools (Git)
- Basic understanding of using CI to deploy apps (we use Bitrise)
- Attention to detail to implement and bring designs to life using animations (we use Animated and Reanimated in some places)
- Understanding of React Native limitations in native mobile environments
- Understanding of code signing for iOS and Android (we use Fastlane)
- Good understanding of best practices for mobile apps, like Material Design and Human Interface Guidelines
- 8+ years of testing and deploying code in a production environment
- Experience working in a start-up, working with a remote team is preferred
- Fluency in English (written and verbal)
Contract Term: 12 months
Time zone: EST (UTC -5), MST (UTC -7), ART (UTC -3), UTC -4, UTC -4:30, UTC -3, UTC -2, SBT (UTC +11), GMT (UTC +0), CET (UTC +1), EET (UTC +2), MSK (UTC +3), CEST (UTC +2), BST (UTC +1), JST (UTC +9), CST (UTC +8), WIB (UTC +7), MMT (UTC +6:30), BST (UTC +6), NPT (UTC +5:45), IST (UTC +5:30), UZT (UTC +5), IRDT (UTC +4:30), GST (UTC +4)
What are the benefits?
- Remote Work
- Unlimited PTO
- Customize your workspace & tools
- Offsites