Senior Mobile Engineer

Who we are

Chowdeck is an on-demand delivery service for Africa. We deliver food, medicine, groceries and other packages seamlessly while providing customers with a platform to order from their favourite vendors.

At Chowdeck, we deeply value growth, excellence, speed, and empathy. Our team is a tight-knit group of creative problem solvers who are smart, kind, and committed to helping each other grow.

Where you come in

We're looking for an experienced Mobile Engineer at Chowdeck who'll be responsible for building the mobile interfaces through which customers interact with our products. We have three mobile apps: the customer app, where people order food; our vendors' app, used by restaurants; and the Rider's app, used by delivery drivers. We use React Native and JavaScript but also leverage native APIs for deep integrations.

We're looking for curious, empathetic, and kind people who want to continue their careers at a fast-growing tech startup that cares deeply about personal and professional development.

In this role you'll be required to:

Build and maintain features on one or more of our three mobile apps for customers, vendors and riders

Build app and UI components from prototypes and wireframes

Build pixel-perfect, smooth UIs across both major mobile platforms, iOS and Android.

Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms when necessary

Continuously Improve front-end performance by eliminating performance bottlenecks.

Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks so our apps feel as native as possible.

Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure our products are of the highest quality.

Work with engineers across the company to build and maintain new features at large-scale.

Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

You’re perfect for the Senior Mobile Engineer role if you:

are motivated by the opportunity to improve the lives of our restaurants, riders and customers.

have significant professional experience building large, production-grade mobile apps and experience as a team or technical lead is a plus.

have a firm handle on JavaScript, React Native and its many nuances

are familiar with native build tools such as XCode and Gradle as well as Fastlane for automated CI/CD

have fundamental knowledge of Node, JavaScript, and MySQL

have experience building delight into products using animations where necessary

have experience using and implementing automated testing suites for mobile

can write code that meets our standards for style, maintainability, testability and best practices for a high-scale web environment.

can think through product requirements to come up with ways of quickly solving problems without compromising quality

care deeply about speed, performance, and quality application design

can communicate what you're working on to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

have a deep and unrelenting focus on customer satisfaction and experience

Beyond the paycheck, Chowdeck employees get:

Full medical coverage

Smart, kind colleagues invested in your growth

Housing Assistance

Transport Assistance

Lunch allowance