Engineering Software Engineer II, Mobile

Going, Inc.; Vancouver; Remote; USD 140,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Software Engineer, Mobile, where your skills in TypeScript and React Native will help shape the future of travel. In this impactful role, you'll collaborate with product and design teams to enhance our mobile app, ensuring a seamless user experience. With a focus on performance, usability, and accessibility, you'll advocate for engineering best practices while mentoring peers. Enjoy a 100% remote work environment, an open vacation policy, and comprehensive benefits including health insurance and a 401(k) match. This is your chance to make a difference in how people explore the world.

Benefits

Open vacation policy

Annual team retreats

Comprehensive health insurance

401(k) with 5% match

$750/quarter wellness stipend

Paid family leave

Meetup stipend

Qualifications

• 4+ years in professional software engineering with a focus on mobile.
• Experience with TypeScript and React Native for mobile app development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers to develop a feature roadmap.
• Take ownership of end-to-end features and propose improvements.

Skills

TypeScript

React Native

Mobile Development

Automated Testing

Performance Optimization

Usability and Accessibility

Mentoring

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Flexibility and Open-mindedness

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Expo

PostHog

Datadog

Ruby on Rails

GoLang

NextJS

Postgres

Redis

GitHub

Jira

Job description

At Going, we're passionate about helping people travel and experience the world. As our member base grows, we're thrilled to expand our team with a Software Engineer, Mobile to help us build, launch, and iterate on our recently released mobile app.

With your experience in mobile development, you'll play a crucial role in creating new ways for our travelers to experience Going. You'll collaborate closely with our product and design teams to build innovative features, squash bugs, and craft future functionality. Additionally, you'll work with our other engineering teams to implement cross-functional features and ensure a seamless user experience across all platforms.

This is a highly impactful role. You'll transform how our members interact with Going and, ultimately, how they travel and explore our world.

In the short term, you will

• Become familiar with our code base, code style, tech stack, development and deployment process, and project management process.
• Partner with designers and product specialists to develop and refine a feature roadmap.
• Collaborate with service engineers to establish APIs that support our data needs.
• Engage with mobile engineering peers to gain context on current and future technical direction.

In the long term, you will

• Be an expert with our tooling: Expo/EAS, PostHog, Braze, Datadog, and more. Identify and introduce new tooling to support our mobile ecosystem.
• Take ownership of end-to-end features. Propose technical work breakdown, prioritization and effort estimation. Collaborate throughout the company.
• Propose technical and product improvements. Grow our ability to experiment and scale our mobile application.
• Advocate for engineering best practices and help the team explore and implement new technology.

What you know

• 4+ years in professional software engineering.
• 3+ years of hands-on expertise with TypeScript and React Native.
• You care about performance, usability, and accessibility across platforms and devices. You have written and maintained automated tests.
• Experience mentoring other engineers on a team or are looked to as an expert in components of your work.
• You approach challenges through a customer lens, with empathy and a passion for quality.
• Clear and earnest written and verbal communication skills.
• High standards for yourself and the code you write.
• Flexibility, open-mindedness, and willingness to learn.
• You’re legally authorized to work in the United States and can work US hours.

Nice to Have’s:

• Native iOS/Android module development experience with Objective-C, Swift, or Kotlin.
• Experience in a startup or small company environment, with rapid prototyping and experimentation.

Technologies we use

• TypeScript + React Native + Expo being our language and mobile frameworks.
• Expo Application Services (EAS) for builds, deployments, and infrastructure.
• Ruby on Rails and GoLang are our primary service technologies.
• NextJS is our primary frontend web development framework.
• Postgres and Redis are our primary storage engines.
• GitHub is our choice for source code management and continuous integration.
• Notion is for documentation and collaboration.
• Jira is our project management tool.
• Figma is our design tool.

Why you might love working here

• The salary for this role starts at $140,000 + equity.
• 100% remote work environment
• Annual team retreats, with past destinations including Washington D.C., Vancouver, Punta Cana, and Mexico City.
• Open vacation policy, with a 15-day minimum
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• 401(k) with a 5% match
• $750/quarter remote work, wellness, and wisdom stipend
• Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave
• Meetup stipend when you cross paths with a co-worker
• Challenging problems to solve and an awesome team to collaborate with every single day

We want you to bring your authentic self to work every single day. We accept you for who you are and consider everyone on an equal opportunity basis without regard to ancestry; age; appearance; color; gender identity and/or expression; genetics; family or parental status; marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status; mental, physical, or sensory disability; national, social or ethnic origin; past or present military service; sexual orientation; socioeconomic status; race; religion or belief; hair length; organ donor status. Going is an E-Verify employer.

If you require a reasonable accommodation or assistance for any part of the interview and employment process, please contact us at [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request.