Heady

About Heady:

We offer a multitude of services – strategy, user experience design (UX), user Interface design (UI), software engineering, testing, marketing, analytics and maintenance – all of which come together to form a successful product.

We use a hybrid model: Our engineers are based in India, while our UX, UI, strategy, and lead management are in the US. We are not an outsourcing agency; having both regular meetings and a local presence is important to us, just as it is to our clients.

Role:

We are looking for a Freelancer - React Native Developer interested in building performant mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

Responsibilities:

• Build pixel-perfect UIs across both mobile platforms.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
• Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes—React Native moves fast and often breaks things.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• High commitment to work and taking ownership of deliverables.

Qualification and Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in React Native mobile application development.
• Good knowledge of class based and function based components.
• Good knowledge of ReactNative specific guidelines and best practices. 
• Firm grasp of the JavaScript,TypeScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax.
• Strong expertise with HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS and writing cross-platform compatible code.
• Experience in building highly reusable and decoupled components.
• Ability to write well-documented, clean code.
• Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts.
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle (Android Studio, IntelliJ).
• Experience in State management Libraries like Redux, flux etc.
• Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage.
• Experience with automated testing suites, like (Jest or Mocha)
• Experience with push notifications, animations and smooth transitions etc.
• Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence for managing the application lifecycle.