The Job Role

The job role being advertised is for a Full Stack Lead Developer, that will be working exclusively remotely for a UK based startup, with extensive mobile app development experience.

This role requires years of experience, and requires extensive evidence of:

• Success leading a software development team

• Successfully planning, building and deploying an app to one or more app stores

• Successfully managing the support and development of a live app in the app store

• Good references from former employers and/or colleagues

• Collaboration on one or more open source projects

• Success leading a software development team remotely

• Successful understanding and implementation of Agile methodologies

• Setting up communication pipelines with (app) end users to collect, interpret and organise bugs and general app feedback.

Is This For me?

Is this role for you? Here are a few things that will help that determination:

This role is likely for you if:

• You've worked as a lead developer in a startup, leading less experienced, younger developers

• You've worked as a developer, very closely to the CTO

• You've built personal and professional projects in over 5 languages, and/or frameworks

• You've built more than one cross platform mobile app in react-native, as an individual, or as a team.

• You've been using react-native to build mobile apps for more than 3 years.

• You are well versed in Agile methodologies, not as a bystander, but as a participant.

• You enjoy solving seemingly impossible problems (you love a good challenge)

• You own a mac laptop, have an iOS phone as well as an android phone.

• You love to automate operations and processes in your day to day workflow to make your work, and your life easier and more efficient.

• You love reading digital books

Tech Stack (Skills & Technologies Required)

• Javascript

• React-Native

• React JS

• PostgreSQL

• GraphQL

• Apollo GraphQL

• Docker

• Docker Compose

• Next JS

• Node JS

• Any Headless CMS

Performance Profile/Job Description

• Lead daily standup meetings

• Plan scrum sprints with the development team

• Move between writing code for a web application and the mobile applicaiton

• Create a clear strategy and pipeline for receiving useful and actionable feedback and error reporting from end users.

• Aid less experienced members of the development team in clearing coding and error blockers.

• Effectively communicate and re-communicate milestones as laid out by the CEO and CTO

• Provide a written (summary) report to the CTO at the end of a sprint.

• Wisely divide up development time and resources between: Bug fixes, code cleanup, documentation and feature development

• Setup automated tests to ensure quality assurance (QA)

• Approve and provide UI/UX input into mobile app designs.

• Setup CI/CD pipelines for the various applications

• Conduct code reviews

• Build a new e-reader that can take file formats like .epub and .md and render them in a slick and user friendly manner

• Research RELEVANT automation and collaboration tools to integrate them into the company's daily operations

Work Details

• Advanced (Senior) Role

• Remote Work

• Must own a modern functioning laptop/computer (preferably a mac)

• Full-time job (5 days a week)

• Salary: ₦400,000 p/m

• Working in a development team of 4 developers

• Working in wider team of 10 people including the CEO and CTO