React Engineer at Shiseido (Austin, TX)

The React Engineer will join the Shiseido Austin Technology Acceleration Hub engineering team in

designing and building highly extensible mobile applications for providing cutting edge consumer

experiences for beauty and skincare. The mobile applications will be part of a larger technology stack that makes extensive use of AI/ML computer vision, natural language processing, and CG rendering / AR capabilities. The Austin engineering team is part of a global organization with locations in Cambridge, Palo Alto and Yokohama.

The best candidate for this role will be a highly experienced mobile engineer familiar with building applications across iOS, Android or ideally, both. Efforts will focus on building reusable cross platform components and solutions using React-Native where possible. You will work on several interrelated initiatives bringing your skills to bear delivering smart products for savvy consumers on a flexible and ever evolving architecture.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, deploy and support new mobile based applications spanning iOS & Android.
• Define and implement re-usable components either in native form and / or using React-Native.
• Execute end-to-end software development and deployment in an agile environment with a customer focused design imperative.
• Work collaboratively with product managers, UI/UX designers and Full Stack Developers to translate product requirements into fully-fledged applications that are both great to look at, as well as easy to use.
• Be able to interact with the various hardware features of the device such as Camera, Bluetooth & GPS and building applications that maximize their potential.

Working Relationships/Key Stakeholders:

• Work closely with UI / UX and Full Stack Developers to build and define applications to support a wide array of consumber facing platforms.
• Work closely with the Chief Architect to ensure that current and future deployment platforms are considered in design and deployment.  
• Work with the beauty and skin care advising team to ensure that expectations of consumers are fully considered in all aspects of design and release. 
• Work with AI, Computer Vision, and AI rendering teams to ensure services meet performance and reliability requirements.  
• Interface regularly with the global IT organizations responsible for operating all web applications.   

Qualifications & Competencies: 

Key competencies include:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field. MS preferred.  
• 5+ years of software development experience, especially mobile languages, frameworks & tools such as Swift, Java / Android, React-Native, React-Web.  
• Experience accessing and leveraging hardware features of the mobile devices such as Camera, Bluetooth and GPS.
• Experience building mobile applications spanning multiple devices and form factors.
• Experience identifying and building re-usable client-based compnents.
• Knowledge & understanding of how to build mobile applications that are fluid and performant.  
• Experience leveraging back-end services via REST and / or GraphQL.
• Current on best practices in server-side security measures.
• Experience working within an agile based environment and using modern tools such as git, github, bitbucket etc.
• Strong communicator who likes to work in collaborative, fast-paced environments  

by via developer jobs - Stack Overflow