Senior Mobile Software Engineer

Join a team of dedicated professionals whose mission is to reimagine the way healthcare workers live,

work, and thrive. WorkersFirst is an investor-backed healthcare technology company with a focus on

setting a new standard in how healthcare sectors source temporary staffing. Our first solution is a

technology-driven nurse and PSW staffing platform which provides an alternative to agencies for shift

scheduling at healthcare facilities. We have partnered with a major healthcare workers union to deliver

shift scheduling app solutions to its member-bases. Our initial exclusive union partnership is in Ontario

representing 60,000+ healthcare workers in Ontario, and yet, the reach of the union spans a staggering

1.3 million healthcare workers across North America.

We are expanding our engineering team with a senior mobile software engineer who will lead the

development of our mobile application. We are looking for a person who is eager to learn and put their

hands-on engineering experience to bolster our platform with a mobile app that delivers our vision.

Our platform is built in Ruby on Rails framework with a frontend in ReactJS, and we are in the process of

developing our mobile applications for iOS and Android.

Requirements :

• Bachelor degree in computer science, software engineering or similar majors.
• 5+ years of experience as a mobile development engineer (with both iOS and Android).
• Experience with the React Native library and Expo framework required.
• Experience with building RESTful APIs.
• Experience in Agile development, CI concepts and Git, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Sass.
• Experience with Postgres, MySQL, or other SQL databases.
• Ability to implement professional UI / UX designs with pixel-perfect quality.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to ship high-quality mobile applications on time and within budget.

Bonus if you have the following :

• Experience with cross-platform mobile frameworks (e.g. Flutter).
• Understanding of native mobile development frameworks (e.g., Swift / Kotlin, Android Jetpack).
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Familiarity with web development using ReactJS.
• Dev-ops experience deploying to and maintaining a web application on cloud environments such as Heroku or AWS.
• Typescript knowledge and hands-on experience.
• Experience working for / with startups.

Roles and responsibilities :

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of high-quality, user-centric mobile features across iOS and / or Android platforms (specify platform or both)
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code using industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex mobile application issues.
• Implement product features and release a well tested quality product in production.
• Implement strong unit and integration testing strategies.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest mobile development trends and technologies.
• Work closely with the leadership team to help translate the WorkersFirst vision into a platform that serves our customer’s needs.

Secondary Responsibilities :

• Develop and maintain robust APIs using Ruby on Rails.
• Build and maintain user interfaces using ReactJS.

What you’ll get

• Opportunities for advancement and career growth within the organization to a Tech Lead or CTO position in the future
• Base salary increases as the company grows
• Meaningful work experience where you will directly enrich the life of healthcare workers
• Join a team being recognized for providing a unique and effective solution to systemic issues in healthcare
• Benefits package
• Stock options

Salary : $110k CAD - $160k CAD + Equity : 0.125% - 0.750%