React Native Developer

Bluegrass Digital Limited; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 850 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Cape Town is seeking a passionate React Native Developer to work on mobile apps and web projects. This role requires at least 5-6 years of experience in building scalable applications, with a strong foundation in JavaScript and React Native. Join a team of tech enthusiasts in a collaborative environment, contributing to innovative projects while being mentored by senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5-6 years of continuous experience building mobile and web applications.
• Ability to architect, develop, test, and support applications using various technologies.
• Experience working with more than one JS framework/library preferred.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate requirements and produce accurate estimates of development projects.
• Perform code audits and peer code reviews.
• Manage client expectations regarding technological limitations.
• Assist with the setup and management of Azure resources and pipelines.

Skills

Expert understanding of JavaScript core language

Experience with React Native

Architecting headless web solutions using ReactJS

Experience with RESTful APIs

Experience with Figma

Version control systems (Git)

Attention to detail

Tools

Webpack

NPM

Azure

GitHub

Job description

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Location

Bluegrass Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Overview

We develop medium to enterprise web and mobile applications. We work with CMS platforms like Umbraco, Optimizely, and WordPress, as well as creating custom SaaS applications. We develop on both the Microsoft stack and Open Source stack using Azure, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, C#, JavaScript, React, React Native, Angular, NodeJS, and RESTful APIs building lightweight modern applications.

Who We Are Looking For

We're looking for a creative React Native Developer who is energetic and passionate about using the latest technologies, and eager to grow your skills by working on Mobile Apps and Responsive Web projects, PWA's, API integrations and more.

You will work on some big brand names, some small brand names, and start-ups building some cool projects and having fun along the way.

You will be mentored by our Technical Director, giving you exposure to the latest technologies and architectural best practices being used today.

This is a fantastic opportunity to build and maintain scalable, interactive, and engaging user experiences for some of the world's leading brands.

Who Works at Bluegrass

Code lovers and geeks with interesting hobby projects.

They are collaborators and enjoy contributing to communities.

They like to exceed expectations, want to learn and improve through doing great work experience & achieving results.

Honest, ethical, punctual and professional with a sense of humor!

Technical thinkers that can communicate well with both clients, internal teams and non-techies.

Skills Required

Minimum of 5-6 years of continuous experience building mobile and web applications.

Expert understanding of the JavaScript core language.

Ability to architect, develop, test, and support applications using technologies such as HTML, SCSS, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript.

Architecting headless web solutions using ReactJS and NextJS.

Architecting mobile applications using React Native, Expo, Redux, Detox for unit tests etc.

Experience with more than one JS framework / library preferred (React, Vue.js, NextJS).

Experience working with charting libraries (i.e. HighCharts; D3.js) to build interactive data visualization applications (advantageous).

Experience with JavaScript tooling and build systems (Webpack, Gulp, NPM, Babel, Yarn etc.).

Experience working with RESTful APIs.

Experience working with Figma.

Experience with version control systems (Git) and platforms (Bitbucket, GitHub) is essential.

Able to question the status quo and proactively develop improvements in the technical skill set as well as identifying technical and core skills training requirements.

High level of attention to detail, both in matching a design and ensuring a smooth user experience.

Passionate about creating easy-to-use and stunning user experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Evaluating requirements and producing, updating, and communicating accurate estimates of development projects.

Ensure adherence to programming standards across projects.

Perform code audits, peer code reviews, and support team members on their projects.

Manage client expectations around technological limitations and challenges.

DevOps (Azure) - assist with the set up / management of Azure resources and pipelines.

DevOps (Mobile) - assist with the set up / management of mobile app certificates and deployments.

Strengthen architectural and system design skills for end-to-end project management.

Enhance deadline management and project communication to avoid unnecessary frustration and overtime.

Encourage developer responsibility and ownership throughout projects, guiding the internal team to take charge and supporting project managers when necessary.

Key Behaviours

You set a high bar for yourself and the team's engineering skills.

You possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written).

You provide technical leadership and proactively mentor more junior engineers.

You develop high quality maintainable code to meet complex changing environment.

You enjoy fixing and improving technical debt across legacy code.

You seriously test your changes before hitting the main branch.

You support your code in production.

You continuously deliver improvements to the code base.

You have solid analytical and problem solving skills and strong attention to detail.

You learn quickly and like to stay current with new technologies.

Seniority

Director

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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