Senior Software Engineer [Mobile - React Native]

Who We Are

Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.

With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.

From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.

Location

Our Senior Software Engineers are integral parts of our team at WillowTree. To help retain our deep culture of collaboration, this role will maintain an in-office presence in a hybrid capacity (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays).

The Opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer (React Native) at WillowTree, you have the opportunity to impact teammates throughout various stages of their careers. Utilizing React Native is a growing practice for WillowTree, and therefore, you will be able to help steer the direction of our company and future client relationships based on your experience. You’ll have clear oversight of how engineering runs day-to-day and will influence project outcomes.

We understand our responsibility to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive place within the tech industry, while pushing to make our industry more representative. Because of this responsibility, we need candidates who value diversity and inclusion through their work, team collaboration, or mentorship. So in your cover letter, we encourage you to reflect on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Confidently deliver high-quality software by applying critical thinking to products, requirements, and processes
• Work closely with clients to influence technical product decisions and business goals
• Stay up to date with the landscape of software engineering best practices, tools, and frameworks
• Understanding of various software architectures and can adapt/compose solutions to unique problems with sustainable and reusable solutions
• Help mentor and coach a project team towards shared goals and outcomes
• Navigate difficult conversations by providing constructive feedback to teams and clients
• Identify obstacles to ensure quality, improve our user experience and how we build software
• Self-aware of limitations, yet curious to learn new solutions while being receptive to constructive feedback from teammates
• Guide your team to understand and work through changing priorities by bringing positive energy
• Communicate and simplify complex problems in order to foster understanding across multidisciplinary teams
• Apply your knowledge and findings at an organizational scale

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional programming experience, with at least 2+ years of experience in React Native development
• JavaScript expert skilled in React.js, TypeScript
• Experience using: Vue.js, Node.js, Next.js, HTML, CSS, and writing Unit tests
• Comfortable working with Android and iOS SDKs
• Experience with developing Hybrid applications and PWAs
• Able to evaluate and articulate which framework to use for a particular project
• Can articulate how users perceive performance and how to optimize their needs
• Understanding of the pros and cons of server-side and client-side rendering
• Experience as a technical leader to a team of web developers