FreshBooks is looking for a Mobile Software Engineer who will play a hands-on role in driving our mission to build a world-class technology company with a global footprint. You will be instrumental in playing a vital role that impacts the lives of millions of small business owners around the world and directly impact customer experiences and businesses. We are looking for people who thrive in a creative, collaborative and agile development environment.
If this appeals to you, please come and chat with us to learn more about how you can become a part of the intrinsically motivated teams of engineers!
What you’ll do in your first twelve months at FreshBooks:
- Build real-world applications that have a meaningful impact on customers
- Make sound judgement calls even in the absence of complete information, and recognize when to over-engineer and when not to
- Design and develop application technologies that optimize solution operation and minimize maintenance overhead
- Collaborate with full-stack and mobile developers on cross-functional Agile teams working on features for our customers
- Work closely with UX designers and Product owners to ensure the best mobile experience for our customers
- Contribute to a large codebase that contains a multitude of customer features
- Participate and share your ideas in technical design and architecture discussions
- Ensure quality through automated and exploratory testing
- Ship your code with our continuous integration process
- Develop your craft and build your expertise in mobile development
- Mentor others, versus just answering questions –Pairing and mentoring others is an integral part of this level
- Able to make an effective technical or business case for code changes
- Motivates team members towards high-quality work
- Demonstrate passion for building high-quality software that addresses customer needs
- Be a proactive communicator who enjoys working closely with creative and technical peers
- Work in a dynamic Agile based environment
What you have:
- 3 –5 years of experience in native iOS development (Swift) within an Agile or Lean environment
- Willingness to step up and handle tough issues with a can-do attitude
- Learn quickly and experiment to find new solutions
- Take on unfamiliar problems and extract lessons and learn from mistakes
- Anticipate the impact of emerging technologies and make adjustments
- Experience working with REST APIs —and by “REST,” we really do mean actual resource-oriented REST, and not RPC using HTTP mechanisms
- Experience with version control systems like Git
- Familiarity with continuous integration (or better, continuous delivery) and automated build pipelines
- The ability to balance the desire to ship code quickly to our customers with the responsibility of a quality mindset
- A habit of continuous learning, and of applying new technologies, architectures, and methodologies to improve the code and Engineering organization
- Located in a timezone somewhere in the range of GMT-7 to GMT-4, in order to support collaboration with your team
Nice to have:
- Strong pair programming or mob programming skills
- Experience with React Native
- Experience with A/B testing
- Experience with SQL for querying relational databases – our database is MySQL
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