Company Overview
Christopher Ali are a technology focused recruitment agency specialising in placing the best tech talent in both permanent and contract roles across the UK and Europe. With close to a decade worth of experience in the recruitment technology space, Christopher Ali are the go to specialists for a number of start ups, SMEs and large corporate enteprises.
Candidate Requirements:
- Proven experience (apps in the app store) building beautiful React Native applications.
- Proven experience working from professional designs (Figma, etc) & building out custom components.
- Experience working with REST APIs that require authentication
- Experience working with app state management
- A deep understanding & appreciation of UX. User feedback such as spinners & meaningful error messages should be an implicit requirement in everything
Role day-to-day:
- The company have got an ambitious roadmap that includes effectively a multi-stage full rebuild of the react native app to shed technical debt and allow us to greatly improve functionality for users. You’ll be working with stakeholders, designers & backend developers to plan & be part of delivering multi-discipline projects.
- As the sole react native engineer you’ll have full responsibility of the codebase, so we’ll want you to be comfortable with architectural decisions & managing your own time. You’ll have the freedom to decide the strategy for approaching these decisions & creating an app that is maintainable in the long term.
- UI goes from ideation within the tech team to wireframes you’ll have a part in building, to a designer who will produce designs in Figma. It’ll be your responsibility to implement true to design and work with the designer to fine-tune interactions, animations and other moments of delight for our users.
- You’ll be expected to regularly liaise with the other engineers in the business of different disciplines to help decide the best approach to multi-discipline technical projects.
- There will of course be smaller pieces of work such as tweaks and bug fixes that go along with the maintenance & upkeep of an app used by many.
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