Maharishi Foundation International: Senior Mobile Engineer

Headquarters: Remote URL: https://www.maharishi.foundation/ Job Summary We are looking for a senior mobile engineer with a proven track record of developing React Native mobile applications. As we are a small but growing team, you will be responsible for the maintenance and support of existing app features as well as planning and scoping new feature additions and iterations.You will be working closely with our team to maintain, improve, and extend a meditation and lifestyle application. Applicants should have a proven track record working on large scale, consumer-facing products with complex and intuitive UX/UI. Applicants should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, where each individual has a lot of influence and responsibility to deliver. You will play a vital role in the future success of this application, and of our wider organisation.The app is in the market in many countries around the world, and has a monthly active user base of tens of thousands of users.The AWS backend is built using a serverless approach using AppSync (GraphQL), DynamoDB, Cognito and Lambda. Local development and stack deployment is managed using the Serverless framework, and CI pipelines have been implemented using CircleCI and Bitrise. Experience with any of these is a big plus.About You You are passionate about creating beautiful, modern, and intuitive user interfaces on mobile devices. You are comfortable with cross platform development (for iOS and Android), and enjoy solving the challenges that come with such a codebase. You understand API architecture, and can take a data model and translate it into reusable and flexible components. You enjoy shipping clean, readable and reusable code. You are comfortable working on a distributed team spread across time zones and cultures. You are excited to use technology to have a positive impact in the world as a whole, and in an intimate way for each individual. Responsibilities Take responsibility for front-end development and maintenance, and work with our team to continue testing and releasing features Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application Collaborate with the engineering, product, and design teams, contribute to the definition of specifications for new features, and own the development of those features Guide the team regarding constraints and best practices in a mobile environment Proactively identify and solve bottlenecks; fix bugs and performance issues Maintain code quality, organization and automatization Ensure testing strategy is followed within the team - for unit and integration tests, and automated testing Skills and Qualifications 8 years of testing and deploying code in a production environment Proven experience in mobile native app development (Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin, Java) Strong experience with React and React Native  Experience with Typescript, Node.js, GraphQL and REST Proficient with code versioning tools (Git) Basic understanding of using CI to deploy apps (we use Bitrise) Attention to detail to implement and bring designs to life using animations (we use Animated and Reanimated in some places) Understanding of React Native limitations in native mobile environments Understanding of code signing for iOS and Android (we use Fastlane) Good understanding of best practices for mobile apps, like Material Design and Human Interface Guidelines Experience working in a global non-profit, working with a remote team and / or in a multinational organization preferred Fluency in English (written and verbal) If you are passionate about this work but do not have all of the skills listed we are still interested in speaking with you and encourage you to apply!Pay and benefits Our pay levels are set according to a formula that combines above-median market rate data for the role (we pay 55th percentile of New York market rate for this role, based on Payscale data) adjusted for your local cost of living based on Numbeo data.We take the issue of equitable pay very seriously, and we apply our pay formula to all workers who work 80% or more of full time hours with us.Diversity and inclusion We care about diversity - we strive to ensure all of our team feel included and can bring their whole selves to work but we also know that this work is never ‘done’ or complete, and that we can always improve.Our team is fully remote, living and working across 20 countries across the world, and we’d love to hear how you can add to our special culture at MFI. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/maharishi-foundation-international-senior-mobile-engineer