Sr. React-Native Engineer Job Description

Key Responsibilities :

- Technical Leadership : Mentor a team of up to 10 engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation. Collaborate with our cross-functional teams to extract and document the existing React Native mobile app architecture, codebase, and integrations

- Architecture and Development : Lead the development of new features and enhancements, ensuring seamless integration with the existing e-commerce ecosystem. Design and implement scalable, maintainable mobile app architectures, focusing on performance optimization, modularity, and addressing technical debt.

- Code Quality : Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code adhering to best practices and coding standards.

- CI/CD and Automation : Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ensuring efficient build, test, and deployment processes.

- Testing : Collaborate with QA teams to implement and maintain automated testing using Appium or Detox, ensuring high-quality, bug-free releases.

- Security and Compliance : Ensure the app adheres to security best practices, including general vulnerability mitigation and PCI DSS compliance for payment-related features.

- Performance Monitoring : Leverage tools like Firebase for crash reporting, analytics, and push notifications to maintain a robust and user-friendly app.

Technical & Functional Expertise :

- Having a bachelor's degree with 8+ years of software development experience, with 4+ years focused on React Native development for production-grade mobile applications.

- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native, RxJS, Redux, Redux Thunk, and React Navigation.

- Hands-on experience with Node.js, npm, Native Modules, Turbo Native Modules, Cocoapods, Xcode, Android Studio, Gradle, TestFlight, and Firebase.

- Proven experience designing and implementing scalable mobile app architectures, including handling tech debt and performance optimization.

- Familiarity with automation testing platforms like Appium or Detox for mobile app testing.

- Experience with GitHub repositories and GitHub Actions for version control and CI/CD pipelines.

- At least 1-2 prior experiences building or enhancing e-commerce mobile applications, with exposure to features like user management, cart, checkout, payments, and promotions.

- Prior experience for mitigating vulnerabilities associated to code, libraries & cloud along with knowledge on building solutions that are compliant to PCI/DSS standards

- Exposure to observability tools like New Relic, Grafana & Firebase for monitoring app performance and user behavior.

- Familiarity with API testing tools like Postman for validating integrations with backend system & analytics tools like GA4, Quantum Metric etc.

- Understanding of retail industry challenges, particularly in B2C e-commerce, such as high user traffic and seamless user experiences.

Leadership & Communication :

- Strong leadership skills to guide and mentor team members, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to facilitate knowledge transfer from vendors and educate new team members.

- Experience working in agile environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g., product managers, designers, QA).