Senior React Native Engineer

Chipper Cash is the largest mobile cross-border money transfer platform in Africa. We are a passionate team, dedicated to expanding financial inclusion in some of the global regions most in need of accessible, interoperable, easy-to-use, and affordable financial services.

• We are a small team. You will be encouraged to engage in high-level technical decision making, and there will be a lot of room for growth for early hires as the company continues to expand.
• The Chipper team is truly global on a daily basis, you might be interacting with team members in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, London, Accra, Lagos, and Nairobi.
• You will not be micromanaged. We have an engineering team culture centered on open-communication, honest feedback, and personal responsibility.

About Our Tech Stack

• Node.js + Typescript service-based architecture
• React Native Android/iOS application
• PostgreSQL application databases
• RabbitMQ for inter-server communication
• Server hosting on Heroku and Google Cloud Platform
• Fully automated CI/CD using Heroku CI and Github
• Application monitoring with Datadog, Logz.io, and Amplitude
• Snowflake for data warehousing and analysis
• Python for in-depth data analysis, transformation, and reporting

The Team

Chipper’s Mobile Platform team is responsible for creating the tools and infrastructure that make it trivial for our whole organization to deploy beautiful, accessible, and delightful experiences for 4+ million users.

One part of this is the Chipper design system that is used throughout the app by our product squads. As the engineering owner of this you will be working closely with design to craft beautiful layouts, components, animations and more in React Native. You’ll be the advocate for delivering a best in class experience for our users!

What You Will Be Doing

• Join a team of geographically distributed engineers who own the Mobile Platform with the goal of shipping the most reliable & beautiful mobile app in our industry.
• Own the technical implementation and roadmap for our design system.
• Support our product squads in ensuring they are able to use the design system efficiently to build Chipper products.
• Improve developer experience and tooling for mobile development.
• Enhance our reputation as a trusted payments brand by managing ways of measuring reliability, performance, and observability.
• Craft internal libraries, and contribute to the mobile architecture.
• Relentlessly pursue and demonstrate best in class engineering & design standards.
• Expect to be available from 2pm - 5.30pm UK time for meetings and collaborating with the mobile team.
• Expect to work daily with Chipper’s Design Lead. Our Design Lead is based in San Francisco please expect to be available between 7am-11am (PST) at least twice a week to collaborate. 
• Working and learning how to build the best animations in React Native.

What You Should Have

• 3+ years of web or mobile application development experience.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
• Developed a mobile application in React Native.
• Empathy for building performant experiences for folks with low end devices, low storage space and slow internet connections, with ideas on how we can monitor and continuously improve this experience.
• A true passion for user experience, as evidenced by an obsessive user focus, as well as an ability to render complexity down to its truest essence.
• You are a champion for the customer and constantly put yourself in the shoes of your users, and strive to create an intuitive and delightful experience.
• A desire to push the boundaries on what can be achieved with React Native & Typescript.

 

Next Steps

If you feel you are a fit, please apply because we would love to hear from you. It means a lot to us that you have taken the time to read through our job description so thank you for your time. We wish you all the best in your job search.

We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chipper Cash is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. 

If there are any accommodations that we can provide during the interview process that help you to be confident and do your best work, don’t hesitate to let us know.

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