About the Role
You will be responsible for building and maintaining cross-platform mobile applications in React Native, ensuring high performance, responsiveness, and a polished user experience. This role requires integrating native device capabilities, developing backend services, and collaborating within a structured Git workflow.
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Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain cross-platform mobile applications in React Native.
- Ensure performance, responsiveness, and a polished user experience.
- Integrate native device capabilities, including camera, biometrics, secure storage, push notifications, deep linking, and third-party SDKs (payments, identity verification).
- Build and consume TypeScript/Node.js (Express) backend services and REST APIs that power the apps, including server-driven and dynamic UI content.
- Work within a structured Git workflow (issue → branch → pull request → review).
- Participate in code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback, and write well-documented, maintainable, reusable code.
- Support the app build and release process across iOS and Android.
- Troubleshoot and debug across mobile and backend layers.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and prototype new features using React Native and native mobile capabilities where required.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience building and shipping mobile applications, with strong hands-on production experience in React Native.
- Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript (ES6+).
- Strong understanding of state management patterns such as Redux, Zustand, React Query, Context API, or similar.
- Experience integrating native device features, permissions, lifecycle management, device APIs, and third-party SDKs.
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs.
- Experience with Git and pull request-based collaboration workflows.
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
- Ability to write clean, modular, reusable code and work effectively within existing codebases.
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and communication skills.
Nice-to-Have Experience
- Native mobile development experience with Swift (iOS) or Kotlin (Android).
- Experience publishing and maintaining apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
- Experience with server-driven UI or dynamic/JSON-rendered interfaces.
- Node.js / Express backend development experience.
- CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure.
- Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and automated testing frameworks.
Benefits
- International team (over 50 nationalities)
- 24 working annual leave days
- Annual flight home
- Life insurance plan
- Medical insurance plan (with the option to upgrade)
- Invitations to participate in various company functions, staff events, and department team building events
- Opportunities to learn, develop and grow with the organization
- Being part of a motivated team and a forward-thinking company culture.
