About the Role
At Going, we're passionate about helping people travel and experience the world. As our member base grows, we're thrilled to expand our team with a Senior Software Engineer, Mobile to help us build, launch, and iterate on our recently released mobile app.
With your experience in mobile development, you'll play a crucial role in creating new ways for our travelers to experience Going. You'll collaborate closely with our product and design teams to build innovative features, squash bugs, and craft future functionality. Additionally, you'll work with our other engineering teams to implement cross-functional features and ensure a seamless user experience across all platforms.
This is a highly impactful role where you'll transform how our members interact with Going and, ultimately, how they travel and explore our world.
We will prioritize applications received by September 27th to ensure timely review and response. While applications may remain open after this date, those submitted later may experience a slower review process.
In the short term, you will
Become familiar with our code base, code style, tech stack, development and deployment process, and our project management process
Partner with Design and Product to build a roadmap for our app
Help us determine our native app strategy.
Work with other product teams to establish APIs that support our mobile applications
In the long term, you will
Be an expert with our tooling: Sentry, PostHog, Braze, Instabug, and more. You will also identify and introduce new tooling to support our mobile ecosystem
Bring creative solutions to projects to support the continual improvement of Going
Take ownership of end-to-end feature and product development, and help scale our mobile application
Serve as an advocate for engineering best practices and help the team explore and implement new technology
What you know
Hands-on expertise with TypeScript and React Native, as well as native iOS/Android development—bonus points for experience with Expo
You have solid foundations in software design and implementing a feature end to end
Experience writing automated unit tests, with bonus points for integrated and functional testing experience
You care about performance, usability, and accessibility across all devices
Experience mentoring other engineers on a team or are looked to as an expert in components of your work
Empathy and passion for building production-ready features
Clear and earnest written and verbal communication skills
High standards for yourself and the code you write
Flexibility, open-mindedness, and willingness to learn
You’re legally authorized to work in the United States and are able to work US-hours.
Technologies we use
TypeScript is our language of choice, with React Native + Expo being our mobile frameworks
We’re looking into Swift and Kotlin development, and moving the app to a native framework.
Expo Application Services are used for deployments and infrastructure
Ruby on Rails is our primary server framework
React is our primary frontend development framework
Postgres and Redis are our primary storage engines
GitHub is our choice for source code management and continuous integration
Notion is for documentation and collaboration
Jira is our project management tool
Figma is our design tool
Who you’ll work with
You will report to Justin Kuo
You will work closely with the engineering team, as well as product and design.
Why you might love working here
The salary for this role starts at $148,732 + equity.
100% remote work environment
Bi-annual team retreats, with past destinations including Vancouver, Punta Cana, and Mexico City. We're heading to Washington DC this fall!
Open vacation policy, with a 15-day minimum
Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
401(k) with a 5% match
$750/quarter remote work, wellness, and wisdom stipend
Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave
Meetup stipend when you cross paths with a co-worker
Continuing education & development reimbursement
Challenging problems to solve and an awesome team to collaborate with every single day
We want you to bring your authentic self to work every single day. We accept you for who you are and consider everyone on an equal opportunity basis without regard to ancestry; age; appearance; color; gender identity and/or expression; genetics; family or parental status; marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status; mental, physical, or sensory disability; national, social or ethnic origin; past or present military service; sexual orientation; socioeconomic status; race; religion or belief; hair length; organ donor status. Going is an E-Verify employer.
If you require a reasonable accommodation or assistance for any part of the interview and employment process, please contact us at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request.
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