React Native Developer

Bluegrass Digital; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A digital development company in Cape Town seeks a React Native Developer skilled in creating mobile applications using React Native and JavaScript frameworks. This role involves collaboration on exciting projects, mentoring opportunities, and contributing to user-friendly designs for well-known brands. The ideal candidate has solid experience in mobile and web applications along with strong problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• 5-6 years of experience building mobile and web applications.
• Expert understanding of JavaScript core language.
• Experience architecting headless web solutions.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate requirements and provide accurate estimates for projects.
• Perform code audits and peer code reviews.
• Manage client expectations regarding technology challenges.

Skills

JavaScript core language

ReactJS and NextJS

React Native and Expo

Figma

RESTful APIs

Version control systems (Git)

Attention to detail

Tools

Webpack

Gulp

NPM

Babel

Yarn

Job description

WHAT WE DO?

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 the 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 LOOKING FOR

We are 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 big brand names, small brand names, and start‑ups building 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+), and TypeScript.
• Architecting headless web solutions using ReactJS and NextJS.
• Architecting mobile applications using React Native, Expo, Redux, and Detox for unit tests.
• Experience with more than one JS framework/library preferred (React, NextJS).
• Experience working with charting libraries (i.e. HighCharts) 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).
• 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.
• Ensuring adherence to programming standards across projects.
• Performing code audits, peer code reviews, and supporting team members on their projects.
• Managing 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.
• Strengthening architectural and system design skills for end‑to‑end project management.
• Enhancing deadline management and project communication to avoid unnecessary frustration and overtime.
• Encouraging 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 maintable 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.