Mobile Engineer - Mid Level at Bumpa

The Bumpa Engineering team plays a critical role in building products that simplify commerce for small businesses across Africa. We are looking for a mid-level Mobile Engineer to join our Products team and contribute to building reliable, user-friendly, and scalable mobile experiences. This role will support the development of product features across the Bumpa app, including areas such as payments, orders, product listings, customer engagement, business management, and other core mobile experiences. The ideal candidate should have strong React Native experience, a good product mindset, and an interest in building tools that help small businesses sell, get paid, and manage their operations more efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

Mobile App Development

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality React Native mobile applications for iOS and Android.
• Build and improve product features across areas such as payments, orders, product listings, customer engagement, and business management.
• Support the development and optimization of product features across key user journeys, including payments, orders, listings, and business management tools.
• Improve app performance, responsiveness, usability, and reliability.

Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Design, Backend, QA, and other Engineering team members to deliver mobile features.
• Contribute to technical discussions and help make practical engineering decisions.
• Translate product requirements into clean, maintainable, and scalable mobile solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and support good engineering practices within the mobile team.

Integrations and APIs

• Integrate mobile applications with backend services, RESTful APIs, and third-party tools.
• Support authentication, data synchronization, and error handling across mobile experiences.
• Work with backend engineers to ensure smooth and reliable mobile-to-server communication.

Testing and Troubleshooting

• Write and maintain unit, integration, and UI tests where applicable.
• Debug and resolve mobile issues in a timely manner.
• Monitor and improve the stability of mobile features after release.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing code, user flows, and app performance.
• Prove the performance, reliability, and scalability of commerce systems.

Required

• 3+ years of hands-on React Native development experience.
• Good understanding of JavaScript, React components, state management, and mobile app architecture.
• Experience building and shipping mobile applications for iOS and Android.
• Experience integrating mobile apps with APIs and third-party services.
• Ability to write clean, reusable, and maintainable code.
• Good debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Interest in commerce, fintech, SaaS, or tools that support small businesses.

Preferred

• Experience with TypeScript.
• Experience working on ecommerce, fintech, SaaS, commerce, or other user-facing product experiences.
• Familiarity with mobile testing frameworks.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for mobile applications.
• Experience working with GraphQL APIs.
• Understanding of app performance optimization and mobile release processes.

Desired Personal Attributes

• Strong user-centric mindset and care for good mobile experiences.
• Comfortable taking ownership of assigned features and delivering them reliably.
• Collaborative and open to feedback.
• Curious, eager to learn, and willing to grow within a fast-moving engineering team.
• Practical problem-solver with attention to detail.
• Interest in building products that help small businesses operate and grow.merchants grow.