Senior Software Engineer React Node React Native

Location: Portugal

Department: Engineering

Hours: Fulltime

About YLD:

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract inspire develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London Lisbon and Porto.

Tasks

About the role:

As a Senior/Lead Software Engineer you will be instrumental in setting technical direction designing complex systems and ensuring the successful delivery of highquality mobile applications. We expect you to be curious passionate driven and enthusiastic Youll be proficient at problemsolving and crafting scalable resilient and faulttolerant architectures. Youll be an effective communicator and team leader fostering a culture of collaboration and learning. You and your team will move in a fastpaced engineering environment achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.

About You:

A YLD Software Engineering Consultant is a highlyskilled developer who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others.

Youll have the opportunity to build and deliver software within some interesting projects both in terms of the product and the methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a testfirst mindset (actually writing code without tests should be unthinkable). We are also big advocates of pair programming and nothing is released until we have a code review.

You have a real passion for problemsolving and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you.

Requirements

Your daytoday responsibilities will look like this:

• Collaborate with product managers and other stakeholders to provide strategic insights on technology choices feasibility and project planning.
• Design and guide the development of scalable and maintainable mobile applications using React Native ensuring they meet client and user requirements;
• Write clean maintainable and efficient code;
• Optimise application performance and ensure responsiveness;
• Spearhead efforts to identify and resolve complex bugs performance bottlenecks and architectural challenges ensuring optimal app performance;
• Stay uptodate with the latest trends in software engineering and incorporate best practices;
• Mentor and coach software engineers helping them grow their skills fostering a culture of excellence and ensuring that the team delivers highquality work.

Youll have the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience in mobile application development using React Native;
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript and the React framework;
• Experience with state management libraries such as Redux or MobX;
• Proficiency in using RESTful APIs and integrating thirdparty services;
• Experience with GraphQL;
• Familiarity with platformspecific features and differences;
• Understanding of native modules and bridge communication;
• Knowledge of version control systems preferably Git;
• Strong problemsolving and debugging skills;
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills;
• Attention to detail and a commitment to producing highquality code;
• A strong portfolio of previous mobile applications is a plus.

Youll be:

• Selfmotivated proactive and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
• A good communicator both in writing and verbally. Youll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in businessfriendly language;
• Detail oriented;
• Used to working in a teamoriented collaborative environment;
• Analytical and problemsolving oriented;
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.

Benefits

As well as the chance to work with a forwardthinking ethical and fun group of people youll also get:

• Company Private Health care
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• 2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
• 300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Mental Health support: access to Spill app
• Meditation/Sleep support: Headspace or Calm app subscription
• Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
• Company laptop
• Generous referral schemes

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• TakeHome Challenge (1h)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)

We live and breathe our values and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

Were an equalopportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We dont discriminate based on race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation pregnancy or maternity age marital status or disability status. Likewise we also offer a remotefirst working environment meaning that flexible working and worklife balance come as standard for all employees.