Mobile Software Engineer II

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Mission

As a key contributor to App Folio's mobile team, you will work closely with a passionate group of engineers to build and maintain our mobile apps for property managers, tenants, vendors, and future additional adjacent customers in the real estate vertical. Over time, you will collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and designers to continue improving our mobile apps at the same time as making them more robust and simple to maintain.

Description

Mission

As a key contributor to App Folio's mobile team, you will work closely with a passionate group of engineers to build and maintain our mobile apps for property managers, tenants, vendors, and future additional adjacent customers in the real estate vertical. Over time, you will collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and designers to continue improving our mobile apps at the same time as making them more robust and simple to maintain.

Outcomes

Mobile Platform

• Maintain a strong and stable platform that supports iOS and Android mobile applications for Appfolio Property Manager and Tenant Portal.
• The platform remains modern and up to date with key dependencies and frameworks.
• Mobile applications adhere to all Apple App Store and Google Play Store requirements.
• The building and testing for mobile can be easily learned by other developers through robust and well-maintained documentation.
• Experience teams do not need to think or worry about forward/backward compatibility of the Mobile Platform -- it is handled for them.

• Support the efforts of other teams to create great mobile experiences, particularly those that require deep integration, such as Push Notifications, Offline Support, Platform Payments, etc.
• Lead with a customer-focused mindset -- magical end users experiences, and practical internal developer experiences
• Proactively communicate and actively integrate into external experience teams to provide a high level of responsiveness and service to fulfill the requirements of a given project.
• Educate others on Mobile Platform development and integration.
• Be a mentor for Mobile Application builds and testing.
• Honor commitments to customers, business, and peers through diligence and reliability.

• Leverage strong experience developing React-based applications to help build and maintain robust React Native application experiences.
• Deeply understand the common architecture of mobile applications.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with iOS and Android platform features.
• Demonstrate proficiency with numerous technologies, tools, and frameworks used for mobile application development, such as React Native, Xcode, Android Studio, Graph
  
  QL, node.js, etc. Comfortably navigate and update large Ruby-on-Rails applications.
• Commit to high-quality deliverables through a commitment to test automation.
• You embody agility, breaking large stories down into smaller ones and iterating to provide great solutions.

• 2+ years of related work experience
• Comfortable jumping into a large (or third-party/open-source) codebase and quickly orienting one’s self
• Excellent coding and design skills
• Practices test driven development
• Committed to pair programming

• Able to make decisions quickly without complete information
• Is not afraid to release something minimal
• Value/outcome oriented mindset
• Able to simplify problems
• Recognizes business wins and celebrates with the team

• Communicates effectively with teammates
• Works well across all roles (PM, UX, QA, and SE)
• Willing to engage in public speaking
• Willing to engage with the open-source community

• Joyfully takes feedback and incorporates it into day to day operation
• Willing to give others feedback with a caring attitude
• Committed to continuous improvement through retrospection

• Extremely tenacious -- does not give up
• Sees problems as opportunities
• Stays positive, even through tough challenges