\nNOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within Europe to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within Europe.\n\n\n\nHostaway is the market-leading SaaS scale-up transforming the vacation rental industry. With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we're taking on the competition and winning. Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.\n\n\nAs a profitable and growing company, this role is necessitated by our continued growth. Check out more about our recent funding round of $365 million here.\nAbout the role\nAs our Staff Mobile Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the continued development, optimization, and expansion of our mobile application built with React Native. You will be in a pivotal technical leadership role to ensure cross-functional teams build the right solutions that solve customer problems in a way that is secure, extensible, and scalable for the future. You will be expected to govern the technical maturity of the respective domain, having a clear view of the architectural challenges and how to remediate them over time.\nKey Responsibilities\n* \nLead the mobile development team, providing technical leadership and mentorship.\n* \nArchitect and implement mobile application features for iOS and Android according to the design provided by the design team.\n* \nEnsure feature parity between the mobile app and the SaaS web platform.\n* \nDevelop and maintain a high-performance, scalable mobile application using React Native.\n* \nConduct comprehensive performance optimization and stability improvements.\n* \nImplement robust testing strategies.\n* \nImprove continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes with Fastlane.\n* \nCollaborate closely with product management, design, and backend teams.\n* \nReview code, provide technical guidance, and maintain high coding standards.\n* \nIdentify and resolve performance bottlenecks and technical debt.\n* \nStay updated with the latest mobile development trends and React Native best practices.\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n7+ years of professional mobile application development experience\n* \n5+ years of experience with React Native\n* \nProficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript\n* \nProven experience in developing and maintaining cross-platform mobile applications\n* \nStrong understanding of iOS and Android platform-specific considerations\n* \nExperience with state management solutions (Redux)\n* \nExperience with mobile app performance optimization techniques\n* \nExperience with mobile app testing frameworks\n* \nUnderstanding of RESTful API integration\n* \nProficiency with Git and version control workflows\n* \nExperience with continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Fastlane\n\n\nNice to have skills for this role:\n* \nKnowledge of performance profiling tools \n* \nFamiliarity with GraphQL\n* \nUnderstanding of mobile security best practices \n* \nExperience with mobile design systems\n\n\n\nTechnical Challenges You Will Work On\n* \nImproving app performance and reducing load times.\n\n* \nImplementing complex features with a modern user experience.\n\n* \nMaintaining consistent functionality across iOS and Android platforms.\n\n* \nMaintaining high test coverage.\n\n* \nImplementing robust error handling and logging.\n\n\n\nWhat we offer\n* \nCompetitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.\n* \n100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours. Just don’t ask to work in our office (we don’t have one).\n* \nEquity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success.\n* \nValues-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions.\n* \nProfessional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities.\n* \nAnnual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms.\n* \nGeographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant.\n* \nDynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success (and making it a lot of fun to work here).\n\n\n\n\nThank you for your interest. If you apply for this role, you will receive an email from our Talent Acquisition team after your application has been reviewed alongside the qualifications for this role and the qualifications of others who have applied.\n\n\nOnly candidates applying with CV + link to a GitHub projects will be considered for this role.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to React, Design, SaaS, Testing, JavaScript, API, Mobile, Android, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $72,500 — $112,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nPlease submit a cover letter, your resume, portfolio and (if applicable) GitHub profile.\n\nNPR’s News Apps/graphics team is looking for a civic-minded developer to join us to cover the 2024 elections. Our team works on data visualizations, information design, creative story presentations and custom tooling to help tell stories in the NPR newsroom. (You can see some of our past work on our team blog and GitHub sites.) This is a temporary position, starting as soon as possible and running through the end of 2024, and can be based at our Washington, D.C., headquarters or at a remote location in the U.S. approved by NPR.\n\nIn this role, you will have the opportunity to help our audience make sense of the elections, including key issues, results and analysis. Your biggest responsibilities will be to help design and build our results infrastructure for primary season and the general election, and to work on related stories and analysis. You will be assigned other projects as bandwidth permits.\n\nOn this team, you will have to work quickly in a dynamic environment. Members of our team wear many hats — designer, reporter, data wrangler, developer, cartographer, sysadmin, etc. Depending on your experience and the team’s needs, you’ll also utilize different skills day-to-day. And you’ll work closely with various journalists and storytelling units around the NPR organization and across our network of member stations, including photographers and video journalists, beat reporters and show producers, copy editors, digital editors and engagement editors.\n\nThis is a union represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with SAG-AFTRA.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\n* Set up and test our election results data pipeline (using data from the AP elections API and other sources) for primary elections and the November general election\n\n* Build user-facing election results displays for use on NPR.org and member station websites\n\n* Translate editorial goals into sustainable applications and infrastructure.\n\n* Work closely with individual story producers, editors and teammates to identify opportunities for visual storytelling, data visualization and/or analysis\n\n* Assess what work realistically can be executed in the time available and meet agreed-upon deadlines\n\n* Document your work for teammates, newsroom colleagues and/or external audiences, as relevant\n\n* Coach other team members, articulating story, design and code suggestions in a helpful and supportive way\n\n* Maintain and extend the team’s technical infrastructure and development best practices\n\n\n\n\nThe above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time.\n\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS\n\nThree or more years of experience developing for the web in a news, civic or data-related context\n\nEDUCATION REQUIREMENT\n\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.\n\nWORK LOCATION\n\nRemote Permitted: This is a remote permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, DC office but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves.\n\nREQUIRED SKILLS\n\n\n* Experience designing interactive or data-heavy projects with a static architecture\n\n* Experience with setting up servers, crons and server-side data processing workflows\n\n* Solid news judgment. You can think of software in terms of the information needs of the audience\n\n* Fluency in JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3, including responsive web design techniques.\n\n* Proven success implementing complex designs in HTML/CSS\n\n* Experience developing software projects using the Git version control system\n\n* Cultivate and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace\n\n* Cultivate and support an inclusive and equitable workplace culture\n\n\n\n\nPREFERRED SKILLS\n\n\n* Experience with the AP elections API\n\n* Experience with Node, EJS and other elements of our technology stack.\n\n* Familiarity with Amazon Web Services and provisioning AWS resources using the console, CLI and API\n\n* Experience working iteratively and collaboratively (for example, using Agile or a similar project management process).\n\n* Experience using web components, including custom elements and shadow DOM, or other JavaScript component frameworks (such as React or Vue).\n\n* Experience with GIS/mapping software such as QGIS, Leaflet, topojson, mapshaper, or ESRI.\n\n* Familiarity with data analysis techniques, especially in command-line or scriptable environments like Jupyter Notebook, Pandas or numpy.\n\n\n\n\nJOB TYPE\n\nThis is a temporary full time position.\n\nCOMPENSATION\n\nHourly Rate: The U.S. based anticipated hourly rate for this opportunity is $46.87-57.69 plus benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum hourly rate NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations.\n\nBenefits: NPR offers access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular, full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPR’s benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being. Plan options include medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings to all eligible NPR employees. \n\nDoes this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you. Please submit a cover letter, your resume, portfolio and (if applicable) GitHub profile. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, React, JavaScript, Video and API jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWashington, District of Columbia, United States