- Developing React Native components for use in the application.
- Interact directly with peer developers, Product Management Best Buy, Design, QA and remote server-side engineering groups as part of a cohesive team.
- Partner with product owners and UX on what’s feasible technically and participate in user requirements translation to technical specifications.
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?
Must Have Skills:
- 7+ years of experience with mobile app development
- React Native app development experience.
- Minimum of 6 years related software development experience with bachelor’s degree; additional 2 years of experience without BS/BA
- Experience with modern JavaScript Tooling (Node, Yarn / NPM, Babel, Webpack, etc.).
- Strong unit-testing and integration-testing skills
- Able to participate in the planning process: take high-level design discussions and create user stories, then further break those stories into tasks.
- Experience with web development.
What are some preferred/nice-to-have skills the manager is looking for?
Must-Have:
- Good social and communication skills
- Team oriented focus. Ability to understand another’s viewpoint and have a constructive code review discussion.
- Takes initiative, self-starter. Able to identify work that needs to be done on their own.
- Automated deployment pipelines (Jenkins and/or Github Actions preferred)
- Ability to write clean, readable code and adhere to team style guides.
Nice to have skills:
- Experience with Native iOS or Android development.
- Experience with commonly used libraries (Retrofit, Butterknife, Espresso, Alamofire, Axios, etc) is a bonus.
- Experience with bug tracking software such as Jira
- Proficiency with UNIX/Linux/macOS command line
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; you must be comfortable in small and large groups and interacting with senior executives.
- Flexible problem-solving ability
- Leadership and mentoring of junior engineers.