Staff Frontend Engineer - React Native, Core
What’s the position?
This is an exciting opportunity to join our rapidly growing technology team, responsible for continuous growth and support of an unrivaled betting experience for millions of sports fans everywhere. We’re looking for a Staff Mobile Engineer who will bring their creativity and experience to Hard Rock Sportsbook to help us build software with a spark of magic. This is a role that works closely with Product Management, Design, QA, and Backend Engineering to deliver a full-featured mobile app. The candidate should have a strong track record developing React Native apps, as well as experience with iOS and/or Android apps, preferably with a background in sportsbook, gaming, or a related industry.
Your responsibilities will include:
Working in an agile, cross functional, team working to deliver the best possible platform experience on multiple platforms
Develop a high-performance mobile application used daily by tens of thousands of players in React Native for iOS and Android platforms
Skilled in breaking down features into requirements, giving time estimates, and writing test procedures
Working in a highly regulated industry
Work with business partners to continually develop, evolve and improve the mobile application
Collaborate with the team to develop backend api’s that support both iOS and Android mobile platforms
Champion best practices in testing, code reviews, and continuous integration, ensuring the delivery of high-quality code and stable applications
Be focused on the end user’s experience and iteratively improve performance
Implement analytics in all aspects of the application and analyze results
Requirements
What are we looking for?
We are looking for an engineer who is willing to tackle problems with innovative ideas and quality technical implementations. We believe the perfect candidate isn’t interested in just what we’re building right now, but wants to understand where we’re going and how it impacts the customer to ensure everything we create moves us closer to our goal: delivering the best customer experience.
The ideal candidate will have:
Min 7+ years of experience in developing mobile applications (native or hybrid)
Min 5+ years experience developing in react native
Extensive experience with state management, specifically mobx
Extensive experience with rest, websockets and graphql
Extensive experience developing in react-native using TypeScript
Prior experience developing on native android an iOS using Java, Objective-C, and/or Swift
Strong communication skills (both written and verbal)
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Knowledgeable in aspects of the mobile development lifecycle, including application development, application structure, device and operation system APIs, debugging, performance, security, and deployment
Deep knowledge and understanding of client-server development in mobile environment, and proven architect skills
Experience with continuous integration and delivery with Apple and Google App Stores
Utilization and integration of mobile features like Push Notifications, Background Loading, Offline Content Storage, etc.
Must have prior experience building scalable, secure, and compliant systems for real money or high-volume transactional platforms.
What’s in it for you?
We offer our employees more than just competitive compensation. Our team benefits include:
Competitive pay and benefits
Flexible vacation allowance
Flexible work from home or office hours
Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand
Opportunity to build products enjoyed by millions as part of a passionate team
