Frontend Developer at Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Frontend Developer – Mobile / Web Development

Location: Lagos

Job Description

An exciting opportunity exists for a Frontend Developer to join a dynamic project team
The role would suit someone with proven experience building production, commercial-quality Mobile and web app
A strong candidate might have made a switch from Web react development to mobile app development
And ideal candidate should also have a good understanding of CSS, Flexbox and styling mobile views.

Responsibilities

The Application Developer will be expected to have aptitudes, skills, knowledge and experience on the following areas:

Demonstrable analytical skills with regard to specifying and detailing business processes and requirements
Delivery experience REACT, CSS, Flexbox Mobile Native Swift (IOS) etc.
Extensive experience using React Native
Good practices especially in GIT Source code management and versioning
Practical experience in Agile development methodologies
Ability to work both in a collaborative team environment and independently.
Proficient verbal and written communication skills
Formulation, management and execution of data test strategies, plans and delivery commitments in concert with business and project management efforts
Mobile and web service development experience.

Problem Solving:

The Application Developer will often be challenged with new problems to which they will need to rely on strong problem solving skills to resolve:
The ability to accurately identify the cause of a system/application malfunction, interpret that to management and their colleagues, document and propose resolutions
Fully understand structured methodologies (e.g. Agile) for using programming code to solve business problems
Ensure all changes and implementations are well tested and managed in a controlled manner with full rollback plans
Correctly identify when assistance is required and request it accordingly
Collaborate with the wider team in matters where their support is required.

Experience / Technical Skills

Bachelor’s Degree (B.S. / B.A.) in Computer Science or similar (Minimum 2:2)
3+ years mobile app of frontend development (particularly with React)
2+ years experience using React Native for mobile app development
Good understanding of CSS, Flexbox and styling mobile views
Knowledge of Mobile native bindings using Swift (iOS) and Java
(Android) beneficial
Strong candidates might have made switch from Web react development to mobile
Strong knowledge of mobile deployment (particularly to testflight) + play store
Testing of react components using Jest, snapshots and headlesstesting tools
Strong development practices – code discipline, linting and adherence to style guides
Great practices especially in Git source code management and versioning
Experience with serving push notifications on mobile
Knowledge of App Center and Firebase are beneficial
Working in Agile environment (working in scrum team)
Experience with Agile tools e.g. Jira.