What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Mobile Software Engineer position at Opus Inspection?
Due to expanding business needs, we are seeking a highly experienced mobile app engineer with strong technical leadership ability and experience working with SaaS and full-stack mobile applications using React Native and various API technologies as appropriate.
As a key member of our tech organization, you’ll play a foundational role in defining and developing our team’s mobile application pipeline and educating our team members on mobile development best practices.
In this remote position, you will work with an agile and collaborative small team of developers, and will:
- Develop various mobile applications, including new and existing React Native applications and occasional support of applications written in Swift for iOS and Java for Android
- Create CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying mobile applications using our existing Gitlab and AWS infrastructure (in this role you will also have significant leeway to select alternate tools that are best suited for this use case)
- Establish mobile application development best practices and mentor the existing team on these practices
- Contribute occasionally as needed to backend API development (our existing team can provide support and mentorship in this area)
- Integrate and work alongside our existing software engineering team, comprised of full stack engineers, including attending standup and participating in agile ceremonies
- Act as a technical leader for mobile software engineering within our tech organization, demonstrating accountability and ownership
- Assist with web-based development of mobile-first features for cross-platform accessibility when needed
Gordon-Darby is a leading provider of government services, based in Louisville, Kentucky. We provide data management systems, applications, and customer service for various state partners around the county for Vehicle Emissions and Safety Inspection Programs, and Fish and Game Licensing systems. Our Engineering organization predominantly uses React, Ruby on Rails, and Go for our existing web applications.
In return for your hard-work and expertise, we provide a full complement of benefits that includes a generous time off policy, 401K plan with company match and professional development opportunities.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have an advanced understanding of mobile engineering best practices, be capable of independently implementing mobile development lifecycle processes, and able to mentor and train our existing engineering team on mobile engineering using React Native that these projects can be shared by the broader engineering team.
Specific qualifications include:
- 7-10 years’ experience with mobile application development;
- 3-5 years’ experience with React Native
- Experience with native development for iOS (Swift) and Android (Java/Kotlin)
- Extensive experience with iOS, Android, mobile UI development, API development, GraphQL cloud-native software architecture, modern mobile application SDLC best practices, databases (especially MySQL, Redis, and OpenSearch)
- Familiarity with GraphQL required
- Familiarity with SaaS engineering principles such as microservices, domain driven design, event driven design, modularity, and how these relate to infrastructure
- A strong ability to think creatively and solve problems and to take ownership of projects and infrastructure to meet goals and deadlines
- Experience with mobile application automated build and deployment preferred
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment