Mobile Engineer

Who We Are: As one of the fastest growing companies in the UK, we’ve redefined how a for-profit business makes a meaningful social impact. As the first to scale in the UK and reach profitability, Omaze has also raised over £80 million for charities and created close to 40 millionaires through its life changing house and prize draws. In addition to working with beloved charities such as British Heart Foundation, Comic Relief, Alzheimer’s Research UK, RSPCA, we’ve also partnered with exceptional celebrity ambassadors including Prince William, David Beckham, Brian Cox and more. Omaze is building a business and culture committed to growth and creating significant social impact on a global scale.

Why You’ll Love Working at Omaze:

• Growth: Omaze is one of the fastest-growing companies in the world.
• Impact: Join a team of world changers dedicated to creating a ripple effect of good.
• Pioneering: Be part of something no one has done before.
• Culture: We work hard, grow together, and spread joy along the way.

About The Job: We are seeking an experienced React Native Engineer excited about building innovative next-generation social good platforms to empower nonprofits to do their world-changing work. You are someone who cares about code quality and craft but also has an intrinsic motivation to deliver value to the customer and knows how to balance both. You have experience developing cross-platform mobile apps in React Native, with a general knowledge of how to design features or systems effectively. Part of the job requires good communication and organisational skills. You should be able to translate ideas and requirements into deliverable work units. You can collaborate with technical and non-technical audiences and always strive to improve yourself and those around you. You believe everyone has something to contribute, value diversity and inclusion, and enjoy mentoring others to help them grow. In this role, you “own” the technical quality, execution, and delivery of user stories.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Bring your cross-platform mobile app expertise to collaborate with a close-knit engineering team building social good platforms.
• Responsible for writing and testing mobile app code.
• Work closely with members of your team to ensure design and implementation meet product needs.
• Help architect, design, and implement reusable, well-tested software components.
• Proactively review the code of others, providing feedback on design and implementation choices.
• Collaborate with other engineers and subject matter experts early and often throughout development to ensure sound architecture design decisions, provide a delightful customer experience, and raise money for charities that impact the world.
• Follow code standards and best practices for iOS and Android mobile platforms.
• Work with Product Owners and UX/Designers to ensure complete and proper implementation.
• Ensure the security, integrity, and resilience of the application.

About You:

• 3+ years of professional mobile app engineering experience using React Native.
• Experience building and managing view hierarchies, as well as creating reusable components and understanding the lifecycle of UI elements.
• Familiarity with handling RESTful APIs and JSON data parsing, including managing requests, handling errors, retries, and cancellation.
• Understanding of how to implement persistent storage.
• Solid understanding of mobile design patterns and best practices.
• Experience designing and building major features from concept to launch.
• Experience with unit testing and end-to-end testing.
• Comfortable operating in environments subject to regulatory, compliance, and risk-based security requirements.
• Effective communicator in teams of technical and non-technical individuals (product, marketing, subject matter experts, etc.).
• Engage engineers to support a culture of collaboration and inclusion through mentorship, respectful code review, and dedication to quality.
• You are passionate about voicing your opinions and can be humble in receiving feedback.
• You have a track record of trying and learning new things and are unafraid to learn through failures.

What’s In It For You:

• Generous stock options scheme
• 30 days annual leave PLUS Bank Holidays
• Annual office closure between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day
• Private medical and dental insurance
• 9% employer pension contributions, when you contribute at least 2%
• £1,200 learning and development budget each year to use on training courses, conferences and professional memberships
• Personal equipment budget to work from home
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Life assurance of 4x your salary

Our hiring process may vary between roles, particularly for technical roles where we may incorporate a technical skills/based interview, but as standard you’ll have:

• Screening call with one of our in-house Talent Leads
• First stage interview with the Hiring Manager
• On-site second stage interview with key stakeholders - this could be other managers, peers or Senior team members.
• Final stage interview with one of our Execs.

On average, our hiring process takes around 2-3 weeks after your initial screening call. We hire on a rolling basis, so we’ll close the role when we either a) have enough applications to process or b) have hired someone exceptional to fill the position. You’ll hear from us throughout the process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to us at talent@omaze.com.