Full-Time Software Engineer

About the Role

At Going, we're passionate about helping people travel and experience the world. As our member base grows, we're thrilled to expand our team with a Software Engineer, Mobile to help us build, launch, and iterate on our recently released mobile app.

With your experience in mobile development, you'll play a crucial role in creating new ways for our travelers to experience Going. You'll collaborate closely with our product and design teams to build innovative features, squash bugs, and craft future functionality. Additionally, you'll work with our other engineering teams to implement cross-functional features and ensure a seamless user experience across all platforms.

This is a highly impactful role where you'll transform how our members interact with Going and, ultimately, how they travel and explore our world.

We will prioritize applications received by September 27th to ensure timely review and response. While applications may remain open after this date, those submitted later may experience a slower review process.

In the short term, you will

• Become familiar with our code base, code style, tech stack, development and deployment process, and our project management process
• Partner with Design and Product to build a roadmap for our app
• Help us determine our native app strategy.
• Work with other product teams to establish APIs that support our mobile applications

In the long term, you will

• Be an expert with our tooling: Sentry, PostHog, Braze, Instabug, and more. You will also identify and introduce new tooling to support our mobile ecosystem
• Bring creative solutions to projects to support the continual improvement of Going
• Take ownership of end-to-end feature and product development, and help scale our mobile application
• Serve as an advocate for engineering best practices and help the team explore and implement new technology

What you know

• Hands-on expertise with TypeScript and React Native, as well as native iOS/Android development—bonus points for experience with Expo
• You have solid foundations in software design and implementing a feature end to end
• Experience writing automated unit tests, with bonus points for integrated and functional testing experience
• You care about performance, usability, and accessibility across all devices
• Empathy and passion for building production-ready features
• Clear and earnest written and verbal communication skills
• High standards for yourself and the code you write
• Flexibility, open-mindedness, and willingness to learn
• You’re legally authorized to work in the United States and are able to work US-hours.

Technologies we use

• TypeScript is our language of choice, with React Native + Expo being our mobile frameworks
• We’re looking into Swift and Kotlin development, and moving the app to a native framework.
• Expo Application Services are used for deployments and infrastructure
• Ruby on Rails is our primary server framework
• React is our primary frontend development framework
• Postgres and Redis are our primary storage engines
• GitHub is our choice for source code management and continuous integration
• Notion is for documentation and collaboration
• Jira is our project management tool
• Figma is our design tool