Mobile Application Developer

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About us

At Pretty Little Thing, they strive to fly the flag for love, equality, and acceptance, working to use their platform to spread nothing but good vibes. Regardless of race, gender, sexuality, style or budget – there’s something for everyone! They want their customers to feel confident in the way they dress and to embrace the way they look. #EveryBODYinPLT is their community that is all about body positivity, equality and supporting each other.

About the role

The React Native Developer will be working as part of their APP development team, which is responsible for supporting existing and building new apps for PrettyLittleThing. As a React Native Developer you will have strong analytical, problem solving and conceptual skills, teamed with an excellent knowledge of latest technologies and have a tangible input into their product development. The React Native Developer will drive their work forward, improve performance and stability of their systems and develop software engineering best practice across the organisation. Their Developers share their knowledge and mentor upcoming talent.

Technical Abilities (including but not limited to):Able to use established design patterns and techniques.Writes clean idiomatic code adhering to industry recognised coding standards.Writes unit/functional/end2end tests with adequate coverage, independently.Owns the implementation of the solution to the assigned task.Proactively improves components, modules, services, systems, and codebases they encounter.Adds domain specific metrics to help understand application performance.Considers and tests edge-cases.Writes code that serves as an example for other engineers.Understands and implements the most appropriate forms of test coverage for different scenarios.Makes major contributions to library code and core services.

About youAs a React Native Developer you will act as the first point of contact for any queries about your language or area of the codebase. You will ensure that you keep up to date with the latest language versions and what they offer, apply this where appropriate. You will mentor junior team members on best practices about your language, latest updates & versions, coding styles. You will offer major contributions to testing across multiple applications and their connecting technologies, identifies bottlenecks. You will help introduce new frameworks, languages, tools, drives adoption of them when suitable. You will also contribute to external technologies or libraries that they depend on, such as opening issues, contributing to active discussions and issues, while solving real business problems. You will seek to drive the overall team’s testing architecture to tests complex flows. Uses non-functional testing tools.

Due to the critical nature of this role, it’s essential that you have:iOS Native / React Native development experience

Nice to have’sTypescriptNode JSExpress JSCSS/HTMLExpoiOS ModulesiOS Build ConfigAndroid ModulesAndroid Build ConfigFastlaneUnit and functional testingFirebase

PLT PerksThey know that as a company they are only as good as the people that they employ. They know their employees work tirelessly to make PLT the success it is today and in turn, they offer them some amazing benefits:Free parking25 days holidayFree on-site gym with daily classes (due to current restrictions, live PT sessions)Discretionary Bonus SchemeCompany shares schemes - including a ' Save As You Earn' scheme40% staff discount (including PLT, Boohoo, Boohoo MAN, Nasty Gal, Coast, Warehouse, Misspap)Monthly social events (including pay day drinks, Employee Appreciation Day etc.)Salary sacrifice pension scheme with 5% employer contributionFlexible working hoursCycle to work schemeChildcare support through the GovernmentHealth cash planPersonal development opportunities to learn and grow at workEqual opportunitiesHere at PLT they not only embrace diversity they celebrate it! They are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and they're continuing to build an inclusive environment for their employees. They know they are better together, and they will continue to build a team that represents a variety of skills, perspectives, and backgrounds.

Reasonable AdjustmentsPLT want to give everybody the chance to perform their best whether that is during an interview or whilst at work. Should you require any reasonable adjustments please let the talent team know.

Key Skills

• Android
• Node.js
• React Native
• TypeScript
• iOS