The Opportunity
As a Senior React Native Developer at GM2, you’ll have the opportunity to impact teammates throughout various stages of their careers. Utilizing React Native is a new practice for GM2 and therefore you will be able to help steer the direction of our company and future client relationships based on your experience. You’ll have clear oversight of how engineering runs day-to-day and will influence project outcomes.
We understand our responsibility to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive place within the tech industry, while pushing to make our industry more representative. Because of this responsibility, we need candidates who value diversity and inclusion through their work, team collaboration, or mentorship. So in your cover letter, we encourage you to reflect on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
If you have experience with React Native, but also with either React web or Flutter, that's great too!
Responsibilities
- 5+ years of professional programming experience, with at least 2+ years of experience in React Native development.
- Confidently deliver high-quality software by applying critical thinking to products, requirements, and processes
- Work closely with clients to influence technical product decisions and business goals
- You’ll stay up to date with the landscape of software engineering best practices, tools, and frameworks
- Understanding of various software architectures and can adapt/compose solutions to unique problems with sustainable and reusable solutions
- Help mentor and coach a project team towards shared goals and outcomes
- Navigate difficult conversations by providing constructive feedback to teams and clients
- You’ll identify obstacles to ensure quality, improve our user experience and how we build software
- Self-aware of limitations, yet curious to learn new solutions while being receptive to constructive feedback from teammates
- You’ll guide your team to understand and work through changing priorities by bringing positive energy
- Communicate and simplify complex problems in order to foster understanding across multidisciplinary teams
- Apply your knowledge and findings at an organizational scale
Requirements
- JavaScript expert skilled in React.js, TypeScript, and experienced in developing mobile applications with React Native
- Experience using: Vue.js, Node.js, Next.js, HTML, CSS, and writing Unit tests
- Comfortable working with Android and iOS SDKs
- Experience with developing Hybrid applications and PWAs
- Able to evaluate and articulate which framework to use for a particular project
- Can articulate how users perceive performance and how to optimize their needs
- Understanding of the pros and cons of server-side and client-side rendering
- Experience as a technical leader to a team of web developers that have built and delivered a large web application
- Owned and led the delivery of major features and components
- Experience working/communicating with clients and stakeholders while being empathetic to their needs
- You have a desire to contribute sound recommendations on technical architecture and design to your teammates and our clients in a compelling and energetic way
- You have formal or informal leadership/mentorship experience
- Proficiency using, modifying, and creating development tools that foster efficiency and improve processes
- You consider 'big picture' perspectives and can successfully balance business goals and technical constraints
Bonus Points
- You're just as passionate about Accessibility & Usability as we are
- Expertise with advanced automation tools (e.g. virtualization, machine learning-based testing, massive parallelization)
- Basic understanding of how to design RESTful APIs that are optimized for responsive, interactive mobile experiences
- Appreciation for inclusive responsive UI implementation
- You've learned about Web Components and want to use them at work
- You’ve conducted interviews and have hired for your team
- A list of emerging technologies we’re interested in: Big Data, Machine Learning, Voice, AR/VR, Security Background, and IoT
