What are the responsibilities and job description for the Front-End Mobile Developer position at Avacend Inc?
Title: Front-End Mobile Developer
Location: 601 S. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 or Detroit, MI - Hybrid (3 days a week)
Duration: Start Date: 10/27/2025 to Est. End Date: 12/31/2026
Note: Candidate must live within a 40-mile radius of either Charlotte or Detroit office and commit to being in the office normal working hours 3 days per week.
Required Skills: Lead development of feature work • Mentor junior developers • 5 years' experience in mobile development • Native and/or React Native mobile development experience (Swift, Kotlin, TypeScript) • Strong understanding of modern development patterns such as functional programming, object-oriented design, MVVM
Job Description
- Seeking an innovative and passionate Front-End Mobile Developer to help build the next generation of our award-winning, online auto and banking applications used by millions of customers. The ideal candidate should be passionate about front-end technology and have experience developing dynamic, responsive mobile applications. Candidates should have strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills and exposure to modern JS frameworks such as React or React Native.
Job Responsibilities
As a Senior Front-End Mobile Developer, you will be a key player in leading client team on its journey to create innovative digital banking and auto products for our customers.
- * Partner with business, UX design and back-end API teams to create world-class customer experiences for the online channel using Agile development methodologies
- * Lead development of feature work
- * Work with your team to design and implement new features, components, and unit tests for front end applications
- * Participate in peer code reviews
- * Review business requirements, design documents, test plans/test cases, and performance testing plans
- * Mentor junior developers
Mandatory Skills
Required Technical Skills
- Strong working experience with browser-based technology, user interface development, responsive web design and engineering cross-browser, cross-device compliant code
- Architectural patterns of functional programming and best practices
- Experience with native mobile languages – Kotlin, Objective-C, Jetpack Compose, Swift UI
- 3-5 years' experience with JavaScript, ES6 , Typescript
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks - React, Vue, Angular, Ember, etc.
- Experience with cross platform mobile development frameworks – React Native, Flutter, Ionic
- Experience with version control systems (Git/Bitbucket/Gitlab) and branching strategies * Experience with developing high-quality, semantic, testable, maintainable, and well-documented code
Desired Skills
Preferred Technical Skills
- Behavioral & Communication Skills
- Experience with 508 Compliance/Web Accessibility
- Experience with creating highly-performant, optimized websites
- Experience with consuming REST API using asynchronous methods
- Experience with JavaScript testing frameworks – Mocha, Jasmine, Jest, etc.
- Experience with command-line utilities, build tools - Webpack, Grunt, Gulp
- Excellent communication skills at all levels, from team members to senior management
- Must have the ability to work in a team within an Agile operating model
- Ability to exchange constructive and respectful feedback
- Must be able to help communicate ideas and best practices to more junior developers
- Must be able to collaborate with wider groups on standards and best practices
- Enthusiasm and a desire to be part of an innovative team
- A commitment to quality, and a desire to improve
Education Requirements
* Bachelor's degree or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other software development related field.
* 5 years senior dev experience in place of bachelor's degree.