Senior React Native Developer in Bristol

About us

Founded in 2008, CitNOW is an innovative, enterprise-level software product suite that allows automotive dealerships globally to sell more vehicles and parts more profitably. CitNOW’s app-based platform provides a secure, brand-compliant solution – for dealers to build trust, transparency and long-lasting relationships. CitNOW Group was formed in 2021 to unite a portfolio of 12 global software companies leveraging innovation to aid retailers and manufacturers in delivering an outstanding customer experience. We have over 300 employees worldwide who all contribute to our vision to provide market-leading automotive solutions to drive efficiencies, seamlessly transforming every customer moment. The CitNOW Group is no ordinary technology company, we live a series of One Team values and this guiding principle forms the foundation of CitNOW Group’s award winning, collaborative and inclusive culture.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior/Lead React Native Developer to help shape our approach in this growing technology space, as we increasingly adopt React Native for hybrid, cross-platform mobile development. This remains primarily a hands-on engineering role, with responsibility for supporting the wider team by driving refinement and grooming activities, advising on technical solutions and helping mediate differing viewpoints when the best approach is unclear. The successful candidate will ensure we adopt best practices from our native mobile teams and that all mobile projects delivered through React Native meet the same high standards for quality, performance and security. The ideal candidate is an agile-minded engineer who is open, humble, collaborative, and ambitious.

Key responsibilities include:

• Drive the technical direction of the business’ adoption of React Native as a technology, leveraging native elements where sensible to do so.
• Determine technical standards and ways of working for both on/near-shore, off-shore and contract resource working in the React Native space.
• Create elegant and maintainable code.
• Help ensure security, scalability and reliability in the work delivered by the team.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align development efforts with overall project goals.
• Serve as a mentor and role model for team members, providing guidance and support in their career development.
• Collaborate with product owners to ensure technical solutions align with business objectives.
• Collaborate and support product owners in running agile ceremonies and conducting refinement sessions.
• Stay updated with industry best practices and emerging technologies to guide the team in making informed technical decisions.
• Ensure code quality and adherence to best practices, conducting code reviews and implementing coding standards.
• Implement and maintain automated testing processes, including choosing what approach the team should take and which technologies to adopt (Detox, Maestro, Jest, etc).
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement in coding and development processes, with a strong focus on test automation (on codebases where this is possible).

We’re looking for:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with design and implementation of large/complex software systems.
• Minimum 3 years React Native experience, with a minimum of 5 years working on modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Excellent experience delivering mobile applications and the considerations that come with it, such as security, observability and connectivity.
• High proficiency with front-end technologies, CSS methodologies (e.g. BEM), preprocessors (e.g. SASS/LESS/Stylus/etc) and cross-browser behaviour.
• Demonstrable experience of being a key driving figure in leadership aspects, such as being a core contributor to refinement and grooming sessions and helping to set the tone for how others engage with such ceremonies.
• Understanding of software design patterns and their application.
• Strong experience of test automation in a front-end engineering environment (e.g. Cypress).
• Strong experience developing for multiple browsers and platforms.
• Excellent understanding of JavaScript, both in terms of vanilla, frameworks such as ReactJS/Angular.
• Good understanding of working with APIs, both REST and using services such as GraphQL.
• Working knowledge of core AWS services and how they relate.
• Familiarity with Git and branching strategies.

In addition to a competitive salary, our benefits package is second to none. Employee wellbeing is at the heart of our people strategy, with a number of innovative wellness initiatives such as flexi-time, where employees can vary their start and finish times within our core business hours and/or extend their lunch break by up to 2 hours per day. Employees also benefit from an additional two half days paid leave per year to focus on their personal wellbeing. We recognise the development of our people is vital to the ongoing success of the business and proudly promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement, along with opportunities to develop and progress a successful career with us. The CitNOW Group is an equal opportunities employer that celebrates diversity across our international teams. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace where everyone’s individuality is valued.