Senior React Native Developer

Broster Buchanan are partnered with a growing financial services business who are continuing to develop their IT team. This is an exciting position for a Senior React Native Developer to take the client's mobile app to the next level, collaborating with a diverse IT team.The role will be based in central London and offers hybrid working.Key responsibilities and objectives:

• You will play a leading role in the design, implementation, maintenance and support of the mobile app.
• Your focus will be on delivering a high performance app and great user experience.
• You approach should deliver scalable, reusable components and front-end libraries
• Translating UI designs and UX wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimising components for maximum performance and user experience
• Working with native modules when required
• Testing and release to iOS and Google Play stores
• Code review and debug activities.
• You’ll become a key player in the technology team, participating in design forums, sprint retrospectives and daily stand-ups.
• You’ll also get to know the wider business – working closely with the security, commercial, operations and compliance teams.

What you need:

• 5+ years experience as a software engineer working in a mobile development role.
• You’ll have demonstrable hands-on experience of delivering React Native apps to best practice standards. You will ideally value clean, readable and re-usable React-Native code.
• You’ll be passionate about software and an advocate of general engineering best practices such as domain-driven code architecture, encapsulation, separation of concerns, single responsibility, clean code practices, etc.
• You’ll have an excellent understanding of iOS and Android platform fundamentals.
• You’re familiar with the latest design patterns for mobile development like MVC frameworks.
• Experience with any of the following would be advantageous – Redux, RESTful APIs, MSSQL & relational databases, GitHub, automated test suites like Mocha, Jest, etc.
• You will have a good understanding of the Scrum delivery framework, blended with a pragmatic approach to delivering in resource and time constrained environments. You’ll know your way around scrum ceremonies, sprint ceremonies, sprint demos etc.
• You will be flexible and responsive, with the ability to adjust and change direction as the business environment and technology universe evolves and changes.