React Native leverages common JavaScript skills while allowing a developer to simultaneously target both iOS and Android. Great React Native developers can build apps that feel truly native while using web technologies that are familiar to a wide range of developers. They usually focus on the front end of the product, but they are also adept at understanding the API services and infrastructure with which the app needs to integrate.
Great React Native developers can build apps that feel truly native while using web technologies that are familiar to a wide range of developers. They usually focus on the front end of the product, but they are also adept at understanding the API services and infrastructure with which the app needs to integrate.
A React Native engineer has a great blend of JavaScript and native platform skills, making them a useful resource for any team that needs to diversify its product across multiple platforms. They know when to pursue a fully native solution, and also when to use JavaScript to maximize code reuse and understandability.
React Native Developer - Job Description and Ad Template
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Company Introduction
{{ Write a short and catchy paragraph about your company. Make sure to provide information about the company’s culture, perks, and benefits. Mention office hours, remote working possibilities, and everything else that you think makes your company interesting. }}
Job Description
We are looking for a React Native developer interested in building performant mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.
Responsibilities
Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.
Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes—React Native moves fast and often breaks things.
Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
Transition existing React web apps to React Native.
{{Add any other relevant responsibilities here}}
Skills
Firm grasp of the JavaScript {{and TypeScript or ClojureScript}} language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
Knowledge of {{functional or object-oriented}} programming
Ability to write well-documented, clean Javascript code
Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle {{Android Studio, IntelliJ}}
Understanding of REST APIs, the document request model, and offline storage
Experience with automated testing suites, like {{Jest or Mocha}}
{{Make sure to mention any other frameworks, libraries, or other technologies relevant to your project}}
{{List any education level or certification you may require}}
React Native developers need to have a particular set of skills to be effective. Teasing out whether a developer candidate is a good fit for your project can be a challenge without knowing the right topics to pursue.
Toptal is a marketplace for top React Native developers, engineers, programmers, coders, architects, and consultants. Top companies and start-ups choose Toptal React Native freelancers for their mission-critical software projects.
Johnathan has 15 years of experience writing web apps that span consumer productivity software to mission-critical financial trading platforms. He has extensive knowledge of front-end JavaScript and browser APIs as well as significant experience with popular frameworks and libraries like React and Redux. Johnathan's deep full-stack experience includes Node.js and Express, MongoDB as well as more traditional technologies like PHP, ASP.NET, and MySQL.
Jeduan is a software engineer with more than 5 years of experience working in almost every area possible from freelance to a government agency. He has a particular passion for JavaScript. He can create REST and APIs from scratch and has worked with libraries and frameworks like React Native, Angular, React.js, and Backbone. He has worked on wide range of projects that required a breadth of knowledge and excellent communication skills.
Arpit is a product-oriented, full-stack web developer, mainly with Angular and React Native. His expertise lies in building MVPs for startups and mid-sized companies, scalable microservices, serverless infrastructure, web crawlers, notification apps, REST/Socket APIs, infrastructure modeling, complex algorithms, AWS, and deployments. Arpit can pull-off projects single-handedly and is the perfect candidate for converting ideas into prototypes.
Gabriel is an accomplished developer who excels at development, design, and branding. He combines these skills every day to imagine, draw, and build amazing websites and web applications for his clients, from initial ideation and vision to final deployment.
Dino loves building quality software and experimenting with new technologies. His language of choice is JavaScript. He believes in Agile practices and TDD, meaning that he is devoted to awesome tests and doesn't settle for anything less. It means his definition of "refactoring" doesn’t consider only the code. He is continuously working on improving his ever-expanding skillset.
Stan is a CTO and a full-stack engineer with 15 years of experience. He is an enthusiastic programmer and has spent the past seven years doing web and mobile apps. He excels at designing architecture and implementing agile development processes. Stan has worked with numerous technologies, including Node.js, Elixir, Rails, AngularJS, React, React Native, Objective-C, iOS, Java, and Android. He's also familiar with C++, Haskell, C#, and .NET.
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Dustin has been a professional front-end engineer for over ten years and has worked at companies and agencies large and small. He's passionate and dedicated to his craft, and he always goes the extra mile for his employers and clients.
Scott is an engineering leader and technology innovator with nearly a decade of experience mentoring and building agile teams focused on delivering exceptional products through a culture of teamwork, innovation, and development.
