Mobile Developer in London

On demand delivery has never been so in demand. E-commerce has seen 5 years worth of growth in the past 12 months, and online grocery has gone nuts, bananas and crackers. Then add into the mix ever tighter margins, and all-time-high customer expectations (thanks Prime) and you see why better, and faster and more efficient delivery is so in demand.

Gophr is a delivery tech company that is reimagining same day delivery to make it work better for everyone involved; the businesses who need things delivered, their customers, and the couriers delivering to those customers. This is what we mean by great delivery, and this is what drives our vision. To give all businesses access to great delivery and all couriers access to great business.

The role involves driving forward the next evolution of our new courier and customer product suite. You will work with our Product Owners, UI/UX team and technical team to deliver a product development roadmap that’s been created from years of hard-won operational experience, coupled with a lot of serious thinking about how to deliver automated solutions that cover every single aspect of last-mile delivery.

As a Mobile Developer your role will be to:

• Be part of an Agile team responsible for mobile development
• Develop high-performance, complex applications running on a scalable cloud platform
• Drive product ideas forward, from providing creative solutions to execution
• Write testable, scalable code that supports and enhances mobile applications
• Build modular, reusable components and features
• Support and nurture first and third party API led applications to ensure that data renders with little delay
• Focus on rendering performance in order to ensure superior user experience on heavy interaction platforms
• Continuously work collaboratively to bolster front-end architecture design and implementation processes in order to improve quality and efficiency
• Collaborate daily with a team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements, user experience goals and pain points

We’re recruiting a number of Mobile Developers so your role and responsibilities will depend on your seniority, experience and ability to learn and improve. We’re recruiting for Junior and Mid level Mobile Developers.

Ideally for the Junior Mobile Developer position you will have:

• At least 1 year of experience in software development (Flutter)
• Widget and UI automation testing
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git
• Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills

An ideal candidate for our Mid level Mobile Developer position will have:

• At least 2 years of experience in software development (Flutter)
• At least 3 years of experience developing Native iOS & Android (Swift/Obj-C, Kotlin/Java)
• Widget and UI automation testing
• Understanding of architectural patterns in Flutter (e.g. BLOC)
• Experience in Networking and communication (e.g. Dio etc.)
• Experience in local database engine (e.g. Sqflite)
• Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Knowledge about Software architecture and design patterns, implementation and testing cycle (TDD) and Domain-driven design (DDD)

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git
• Experience with Firebase
• Worked in Agile Methodology

What we want from you:

• Someone who’s worked on projects with complex UIs, and understands how to create elegant interfaces for them from components that can be reused easily across multiple scenarios.
• Someone who’s enjoyed being part of a collaborative team that takes ideas from anywhere in order to find the best solution.
• You like dealing with complex problems, working with others to interrogate them to a level where you all feel confident that you’re creating elegant, holistic solutions for the users in question.
• You should be someone who understands that getting to the best solution doesn’t always mean throwing more resources at a problem, but may require thinking about it more deeply in order to solve for the widest number of issues contained within a certain set of constraints.
• You should feel comfortable questioning others on whether the solutions being presented may create more problems down the line, and understand that being questioned in return is part of getting to the best result.
• If you’re someone who is excited about the direction the web is heading in, and is already thinking about how to apply these concepts and technologies to industry sectors that are slow to adopt technology, have a reputation for being exploitative, or both - then this could be for you.

What you’ll get from us:

• Our commitment to you to make this role one of the most positive and definitive career experiences you’ve ever had.
• We’re currently experiencing very high growth with a sustainable business model and a very exciting product roadmap that we believe will have significant ramifications for the industry in the UK, and beyond.
• We are a small team, growing fast and that will give you plenty of opportunity to shape your role.
• Our tech is constantly evolving, we’re capturing tons of data and we have some pretty radical plans for all of it moving forward.

Other stuff:

• Competitive salary package
• An allowance to spend on hardware and home office
• Monthly wellbeing cash boost
• Personal development budget
• Highly flexible working hours
• Work from wherever you like
• Quarterly company retreats and parties - weeks and long weekends away
• Career development - product team is growing by 5x in next 12 months
• Highly focused on employee wellbeing
• Mental health days separate to holiday
• Ideas and feedback driven working environment: ideas come from both internal and external sources, including bonus rewards for successful outcomes
• Committed to sustainability: all deliveries were carbon negative in 2020

What we’re about:

Our mission is to build the largest, smartest same-day delivery network in the UK and beyond through technology that empowers professional couriers of all shapes and sizes to build companies that serve their local communities. A delivery network that creates better outcomes for everyone involved, and feels like magic for those using it.

We’ve spent the last 6 years understanding the needs of these operators providing multiple last-mile services, across vehicle types, to customers from every industry sector. The level of knowledge we’ve gleaned in that time has given us a clear understanding of where we have to take Gophr next, and what elements need to be in place for us to get there fast.

We’re already well on the way: Series A closed end of 2020, 300% YOY growth and on track to 8 figure revenue this year. 10,000+ clients ranging from household name retailers to independent local restaurants who were winning from established incumbents, and well-funded competitors. Net profitable in 2020: this feels rather quaint, but we wanted to prove that a tech startup in the delivery space is capable of building a sustainable business model.