Openings at Bluegrass Digital

• We're looking for a creative React Native Developer who is energetic and 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 Technical Director, giving you exposure to the latest technologies and architectural best practices being used today. This is a fantastic opportunity to build and maintain scalable, interactive, and engaging user experiences for some of the world’s leading brands.

WHO WORKS AT BLUEGRASS

• 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.

SKILLS REQUIRED

• Minimum of 5-6 years of continuous experience building mobile and web applications.
• Expert understanding of the JavaScript core language.
• Ability to architect, develop, test, and support applications using technologies such as HTML, SCSS, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript.
• Architecting headless web solutions using ReactJS and NextJS
• Architecting mobile applications using React Native, Expo, Redux, Detox for unit tests etc
• Experience with more than one JS framework/library preferred (React, Vue.js, NextJS)
• Experience working with charting libraries (i.e. HighCharts; D3.js) to build interactive data visualization applications (advantageous)
• Experience with JavaScript tooling and build systems (Webpack, Gulp, NPM, Babel, Yarn etc.)
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• Experience workingwith Figma
• Experience with version control systems (Git) and platforms (Bitbucket, GitHub) is essential
• Able to question the status quo and proactively develop improvements in the technical skill set as well as identifying technical and core skills training requirements.
• High level of attention to detail, both in matching a design and ensuring a smooth user experience
• Passionate about creating easy-to-use and stunning user experiences.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evaluating requirements and producing, updating, and communicating accurate estimates of development projects.
• Ensure adherence to programming standards across projects.
• Perform code audits, peer code reviews, and support team members on their projects.
• Manage client expectations around technological limitations and challenges
• DevOps (Azure) - assist with the set up/management of Azure resources and pipelines.
• DevOps (Mobile) - assist with the set up/management of mobile app certificates and deployments.
• Strengthen architectural and system design skills for end-to-end project management.
• Enhance deadline management and project communication to avoid unnecessary frustration and overtime.
• Encourage developer responsibility and ownership throughout projects, guiding the internal team to take charge and supporting project managers when necessary

KEY BEHAVIOURS

• You set a high bar for yourself and the team’s engineering skills
• You possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
• You provide technical leadership and proactively mentor more junior engineers
• You develop high quality maintainable code to meet complex changing environment
• You enjoy fixing and improving technical debt across legacy code
• You seriously test your changes before hitting the main branch
• You support your code in production
• You continuously deliver improvements to the code base
• You have solid analytical and problem solving skills and strong attention to detail
• You learn quickly and like to stay current with new technologies

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• We're seeking a dynamic and creative Senior Mobile Technical Lead with 9+ years native mobile iOS (Swift), Android (Java, Kotlin) and Enterprise level React Native experience. The role is a long term contract, based at a blue chip Client, and will l suit someone capable of taking ownership and leading on multiple projects to help drive cgrowth and hange within the business. If you're passionate about cutting-edge technologies and excited by an opportunity for blue-sky growth and POC's, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Note, that this is a hybrid role, with 2-3 days onsite a week, based in Randburg, Johannesburg.

SKILLS REQUIRED

• Minimum of 9+ years of continuous experience
• Expert understanding of the JavaScript core language.
• Experience architecting native mobile applications for both iOS (Swift) and Android (Java, Kotlin)
• Architecting mobile applications using React Native, Expo, Redux, Detox for unit tests etc
• Architecting headless web solutions using ReactJS and NextJS
• Experience with more than one JS framework/library preferred (React, Vue.js, NextJS)
• Experience with JavaScript tooling and build systems (Webpack, Gulp, NPM, Babel, Yarn etc.)
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• Experience working with Figma
• Experience setting up DevOps pipelines and managing E2E deployments
• Able to question the status quo and proactively develop improvements in the technical skill set as well as identifying technical and core skills training requirements.
• High level of attention to detail

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evaluating requirements and producing, updating, and communicating accurate estimates of development projects.
• Manage Azure infrastructure and DevOps responsibilities, ensuring that clients Azure applications are maintained and perform at optimal levels of availability
• Ensure team adherence to programming standards across projects.
• Perform code audits, peer code reviews, and support team members on their projects.
• Interact with business users, business analysts and other developers to understand new requirements
• Write technical specifications and develop new functionality to company standards and deadlines
• Participate and lead in design and planning sessions
• Implement and ensure development best practices, and programming standards are adhered to across all projects
• Continuously improve development processes and libraries for maintainability, scalability and efficiency
• Continuously look for ways to automate processes and implement automated solutions to be more efficient
• Manage client expectations around technological limitations and challenges
• Strengthen architectural and system design skills for end-to-end project management.
• Enhance deadline management and project communication to avoid unnecessary frustration and overtime.
• Encourage developer responsibility and ownership throughout projects, guiding the internal team to take charge and supporting project managers when necessary

KEY BEHAVIOURS

• You set a high bar for yourself and the team’s engineering skills
• You possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
• You provide technical leadership and proactively mentor more junior engineers
• You develop high quality maintainable code to meet complex changing environment
• You enjoy fixing and improving technical debt across legacy code
• You seriously test your changes before hitting the main branch
• You support your code in production
• You continuously deliver improvements to the code base
• You have solid analytical and problem solving skills and strong attention to detail
• You learn quickly and like to stay current with new technologies