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We are looking for an experienced mobile and web application developer to help build native mobile and web applications using React Native, React and AWS Lambda. The ideal candidate will have successfully delivered several large-scale mobile and web applications in their career.

Responsible for helping develop, deploy, and maintain a unique mobile app
Day to day duties will consist of writing code and documentation, testing/maintaining critical features, and mentoring other team members on React Native
Additional responsibilities will include contributing to technical decisions, collaboration with back end engineers, and innovating/prototyping new and interesting features
Participate as a member in Agile team, and work with other team members to review user stories, estimate effort for user stories, and participate in sprint reviews
Adapt to changing requirements and priorities
Translate business objectives into programming initiatives and requirements
Actively participate in all team agile ceremonies and contributing to ensure that all team commitments are delivered on time and of the highest quality
Collaborate with development team and product owners to analyze, design, and implement user stories using an agile methodology
Write high-quality code that complies with design specifications and meets development and support requirements
This role will involve the following activities:

1) Review high level requirements and work with user experience team to create user stories

2) Identify and implement development patterns for code reuse between mobile application and web application (React / React Native)

3) Work with development resources on-shore and off-shore

4) Collaborate with user experience team to build pixel accurate user interfaces

5) Build automated unit tests for testing critical pieces of the application

Skills:
3+ years of React Native design and development
It would be a plus if s/he possesses both iOs and Android native programming skills
Experience with AWS services
Experience with JIRA
An ideal candidate will possess all the qualifications above. However, based on the candidates that apply, we may be able to hire candidates that want to focus on one of the aspects in the qualifications above.