RN-001 Mobile - Senior Software Developer Lead

Canada-wide Remote

Our client is looking for a Mobile - Senior Software Developer Lead to join their rapidly growing technology team. The Mobile Lead will take complex features of the product roadmap, break them down into their required technical components, and develop them independently. As part of this growing domain, you will get the opportunity to work on a consumer facing React Native app that interfaces with GraphQL servers.

The ideal candidate will own at least one component of the technical stack and hold accountability for its SLAs along with actively contributing to knowledge dissemination within the organization, participate in the recruiting and onboarding of new employees, and mentor Developers on the team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Product delivery

  • Develop a deep understanding of the product roadmap for the squad, including future features to be developed
  • Contribute to high-level estimation and participate in laying out the development sequences, challenging the product roadmap and identifying areas where technical debt can be reduced or avoided
  • Complete independently complex development tasks and actively contribute to pushing code to production
  • Write testable, efficient, and reusable code suitable for continuous integration and deployment, respecting best practices and development standards
  • Review Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams and technical documentation

Ownership and accountability

  • Be accountable for code quality, with the assistance of a QA Analyst, by conducting adequate testing
  • Be accountable for performance, reliability, scalability and resilience of at least one technical component owned by the squad through SLAs and monitoring
  • Contribute to cross-squad initiatives, acting as a change agent amongst peers to foster adoption of new processes or technical solutions

Knowledge sharing and coaching

  • Review Pull Requests with the objective to guide and upskill junior developers on various technical topics
  • Actively contribute to the internal peer learning platform, to promote continuous learning
  • Participate in the onboarding of new developers

Architecture

  • Contribute to solution designs, challenging other members on technical decisions and explaining the technical design to junior developers so they can write documentation for the rest of the team

Recruiting

  • Participate in HR recruiting events, helping to identify and recruit top developers

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, Master’s degree an asset
  • A minimum of 5 years of React Native development experience.
  • Knowledge related to publishing on the App Store.
  • Familiarity with continuous integration.
  • Experience with MVC, MVVM or Redux is preferred.
  • Experience with XCTest to automate tests is required.
  • Experience with GraphQL
  • Proficiency in Git.
  • Strong English written and verbal communication skills, French an asset

SKILLS

  • Highly analytical and detail oriented
  • Ability to coach and mentor junior employees to achieve personal and professional goals
  • Team player with a high sense of accountability and ownership
  • Ability to influence and drive change
  • Solution-oriented mindset and can-do attitude to overcome challenges
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and master frequently changing Web technologies and techniques