React Native Developer

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

Do you enjoy building products and platforms using latest web and mobile technologies? Do you like getting exposed to international standards, new skills and enjoy building quality code? Are good at collaborating with teams, keen to learn and expand your skills? Do have the ability to communicate in technical conversations with clients?

Bluegrass Digital is a dynamic software engineering company working with leading international companies. You will work in a strong and passionate team using latest technologies and development standards, striving to deliver quality project work. 

WHAT WE DO?

We develop medium to enterprise web and mobile applications. We develop upon CMS platforms like Umbraco, EPiServer, and WordPress, WooCommerce, as well as creating custom SaaS applications. We develop on both the Microsoft stack and Open Source stack using ASP.NET MVC, .NET 5, C#, PHP, React, React Native, Xamarin, Angular, NodeJS, and API’s building lightweight modern applications. We employ a serverless development approach using Azure Micro Services, Cloud Functions and DB’s etc.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Bluegrass Digital is a leading digital production agency, working with both South African and International client accounts. We are looking for an experienced React Native / JavaScript developer to join us. You will be energetic; passionate about using the latest technologies; and eager to grow your skills by working on Mobile Apps and Responsive Web projects, PWA’s, API integrations and more. You will work on some big brand names, some small brand names, and start-ups building some cool projects and having fun along the way. You will be mentored by our Head of Development, who give you exposure to the latest technologies and architectural best practices being used on the web today.

This exciting opportunity is for those that love the world of JavaScript and working on the latest frameworks like React, React Native, VueJS and more! If you are passionate on building web and mobile applications and looking to expand your skills, please get in touch.

WHO WORKS AT BLUEGFRASS?

Code lovers and geeks with interesting hobby projects. They are collaborators and enjoy contributing to communities. They like to exceed expectations, want to learn and improve through doing great work experience & achieving results. Honest, ethical, punctual and professional with a sense of humor! Technical thinkers that can communicate well with both clients, internal teams and non-techies.

BLUEGRASS VISION

“To be Cape Town’s leading software engineering company, passionate about creating world class digital solutions.”

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of 3-5+ years' experience in mobile development
• HTML and CSS (including SASS and/or LESS) essential
• Good experience with JavaScript (ES6+)
• Experience with more than one JS framework/library preferred (React, Vue, Angular etc.)
• Experience with the following technologies used for our React Native app development: React, Redux, Redux-saga, React-router for web, react-navigation for native, Jest/mocha etc. for unit tests, Redux form, eslint
• Node, Express beneficial
• JavaScript related tooling (Webpack, Gulp, NPM, Babel, Yarn etc.) is essential
• Experience with version control systems (Git) and platforms (Bitbucket, GitHub) essential
• Experience delivering projects from designs and functional specs through to production
• Slicing up designs and extracting assets from Invision Inspect and/or PSDs/Sketch 
• High level of attention to detail, both in matching a design and ensuring a smooth user experience
• Experience working with RESTful APIs