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 headless testing 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.

Application Closing Date
5th June, 2020.