React Native Developer

About the Role

The United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) is looking for individual contractors with 4+ years of experience in the front-end/mobile software development domain to design, prototype, develop and maintain cross-platform frontend and/or mobile applications using UN established standards for IT technologies, programming languages and tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototyping, development, and maintenance of cross-platform frontend and/or mobile applications.
• Build accessible, smooth user interface components that work across different desktop and mobile platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks.
• Maintain legacy code and write automated tests for existing and new features.
• Document codebases in a way that's understandable to people with minimal technical knowledge.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team of developers, business analysts and product owners.
• Provide training and end-user support (if required).

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of experience working with React Native and writing accessible UI components.
• Knowledge of TypeScript is required.
• Good oral and written communication skills in English is required.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, Document Object Model and offline storage is required.
• Experience in writing automated end-to-end tests is desired.
• Experience in writing CI/CD pipelines that automate running test suites and application deployments is desired.
• Experience in deploying mobile applications to Google Play Store and Apple App Store is desired.

Skills

• React Native, TypeScript, RESTful APIs, DOM / HTML/CSS.
• Automated end-to-end testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to document code and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Additional Information

• This is an on-premise consulting role located in our Bangkok (Thailand) office.