Senior Front-End Engineer
6 Months ago • 5 Years +
Frontend Development
Job Description
Inkitt seeks a Senior Front-End Engineer to architect, build, and manage their global mobile applications (Inkitt, Galatea, and GalateaTV). Responsibilities include building new features, collaborating with product managers and designers, driving architectural decisions for a world-class user experience, exploring new technologies, and collecting user feedback. The ideal candidate has a CS degree, 5+ years' experience with large codebases, expertise in React Native, JavaScript, React, and React.js, and experience with mobile and web app release processes.
Must Have:
- 5+ years experience in large codebases
- React Native experience
- JavaScript, React, React.js expertise
- Mobile UI/UX design experience
- App Store/Google Play release process understanding
Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st Century, standing at the forefront of technology and entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 4 weeks and selling directly to consumers through its Galatea app. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Recently raising a Series C and backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into GalateaTV is only the beginning of our journey to becoming the next-gen entertainment powerhouse.
What You’ll Do:
- Help architect, build, iterate, and manage our global mobile application, Inkitt, Galatea and our new app, GalateaTV! (you can find it in the App Store / Google Play)
- Build and ship new features at high velocity and high quality
- Work closely with our Product Managers and Designers to achieve product goals
- Contribute your ideas to the product's roadmap
- Drive the architecture and technology choices that enable a world-class user experience
- Continuously explore new technologies that will elevate the user experience of customers in order to be at the forefront of a rapidly changing digital environment
- Stay close with our users, to understand why they are using the product, collect feedback and apply it in your work
What You'll Bring:
- CS Degree or in a related field
- 5+ years of experience working within large, well-maintained codebases
- Experience using React Native
- Experience with JavaScript, React, React.js, Mobile UI/UX design
- Experience working with mobile and web apps as well as understanding a release process in App Store/Google Play is a plus
At Inkitt, we strive to build a company culture and provide employment opportunities based on diversity and inclusion. We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed, as should our team members. As a growing team from 20+ countries, we welcome everyone to apply.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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