Lead Mobile Engineer – React Native

Academic Level 
BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject. 
 

Description 

Build is a Costa Rica based product-oriented and boutique software development company. We partner with our clients to become their product team, helping them from ideation to product launch. We commit to delivering quality, impactful, and ground-breaking products that can realize our client's vision and make their life easier. We’re looking for developers who can work as a member of a distributed team to design, architect, and build system components. Our team works with many technologies, so our developers must be versatile throughout the stack and work to continuously improve their skills. We have an ever-growing roadmap comprised of interesting work throughout our platform’s stack and are searching for the right people to help us. 
 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

• Design and implement front-end features in React Native with performance and maintainability as strong considerations 
• Assist in the conception and maintenance of a unified UI layer across multiple applications 
• Collaborating closely with the design team to ensure design fidelity and provide feedback on technical feasibility. 
• Participate in the definition of development processes, including agile project management, continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), release process. 
• Work in an agile environment where we ship features frequently 
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use. 
• Foster quality while building solutions, through extensive testing of your code 
• Support tracking projects to schedule, budget, and scope, reporting status, issues, and risks to project leadership team 
• Assist in resolution of complex and escalated production issues. 
• Enjoy building user-friendly applications. 
• Care deeply about performance. 
• Good people skills, care about mentoring others. 

Technical Skills 

• 5+ years of experience in mobile development 
• 3+ years of proven working experience with React Native development. 
• Experience with state management libraries. Preferred MobX. 
• Strong proficiency in Typescript. 
• Strong understanding of release process throughout application stores (Android, IOS). 
• Experience creating and maintaining unit tests. 
• Experience with RESTful APIs. 
• Experience with CI/CD workflows and tools. Preferred GitHub Actions. 
• Proficiency with development tools such as Jira, Git, and bash. 

Nice To Have 

• Experience working with Expo. 
• Experience with cloud provider services. Preferred AWS. 
• Experience developing React Native apps using Ignite boilerplate. 

Strategic Skills 

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills. 
• Team player. 
• Experience working within agile environments. 

Benefits  

• Optional 9/80 Work Schedule (Every other Friday off)   
• Unlimited Paid Time Off   
• Private Health and Dental Insurance   
• Work from Home (We also have a cool office)   
• Learning Opportunities and New Technology   
• Job Stability   
• Excellent Team!   
• And more....