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Our Fortune 500 company is driving a digital transformation and looking for forward-thinking innovators to disrupt how our industry thinks about and uses technology. As one of the world's leading employee benefits providers, we help millions of people gain affordable access to benefits that help them protect their families, their finances and their futures.

Are you an asker of questions, a solver of problems, and a challenger of the status quo? Our mission is to provide a differentiated customer experience and exceed the expectations people have of technology at any company — not just insurers.

We are seeking individuals to join our team of talented IT professionals who share never-ending passion and an unwavering focus on our customer experience. Team members comfortable working in an agile, fast-paced, and delivery-focused environment thrive in our environment where we value an entrepreneurial spirit and those who challenge the status-quo.

Unum is changing, and we’re excited about what’s next. Join us.

General Summary:

Join Our Team as a Software Engineer II (React Native Developer)!

Are you passionate about mobile development and eager to make an impact? We're looking for a talented React Native Developer to join our dynamic team! As a Software Engineer II, you'll play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality mobile applications for both iOS and Android platforms.

What You'll Do:

Collaborate & Innovate: Work closely with your agile team members to build and configure software solutions that meet our high standards.

Quality First: Ensure our software is top-notch by leveraging unit testing and continuous integration.

Estimate & Deliver: Participate in estimating the work required to deliver exciting new features.

What We're Looking For:

Passion for Mobile Development: You love creating seamless mobile experiences and have a strong grasp of React Native.

Team Player: You thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment and enjoy collaborating with others.

Detail-Oriented: You take pride in delivering high-quality work and are committed to continuous improvement.

This is a hybrid position that requires 2x per week onsite at one of our campuses located in Columbia, SC, Portland, ME, Chattanooga, TN, or Atlanta, GA.

Job Specifications:

+ Bachelor's degree in computer science is preferred, or equivalent relevant business experience.

+ 2+ years of experience with demonstrated success at the Associate level in software development and software development practices or equivalent experience.

+ Develop and maintain mobile applications using React Native for iOS and Android platforms.

+ Collaborate with designers to translate UI/UX designs into high-quality, responsive code.

+ Integrate RESTful APIs or other backend services to ensure robust app functionality.

+ Optimize application performance for speed, scalability, and a seamless user experience.

+ Write clean, modular, and testable code following best practices and coding standards.

+ Debug and resolve technical issues to ensure app stability and reliability.

+ Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge with the team.

+ Stay up-to-date with the latest React Native updates, mobile development trends, and best practices.

+ Assist in deploying applications to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

+ Experience with GIT for source code management.

+ Demonstrates strong focus on quality delivery and delighting customers.

+ Experience with Agile development methodologies.

+ Strong team player with analytical and critical thinking skills. Able to work effectively within a team and more broadly with people from a variety of backgrounds and areas across the organization.

Qualifications:

+ 2+ years of professional experience developing mobile applications with React Native.

+ Proven track record of delivering apps to production on iOS and Android platforms.

+ Experience with JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, and React concepts.

Technical Skills:

+ Strong proficiency in React Native and its ecosystem (e.g., Redux, React Navigation).

+ Experience with RESTful APIs or third-party libraries and APIs.

+ Familiarity with native build tools like Xcode, Android Studio, or Gradle.

+ Knowledge of mobile UI/UX principles and responsive design.

+ Understanding of version control systems (e.g., Git).

+ Experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Detox) is a plus.

+ Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and mobile app deployment processes including GitHub actions.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

+ Responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of new and existing features for the existing portfolio of applications for a business area.

+ Responsible for communication and collaboration with key stakeholders in the delivery of features.

+ Design, codes, configures, unit tests, maintains, and documents software deliverables using agreed upon standards and tools. Participates in sizing and estimation activities within the agile team.

+ Communicates daily with the Scrum Master or Team Lead and the Agile team on progress made and planned progress for the coming day and reports any impediments that are blocking their progress.

+ Participates in code reviews and sprint retrospectives; ensuring their ideas for team continuous improvement are communicated so that the overall process/team can improve sprint by sprint and readily receives feedback for self-improvement. May lead parts of same.

+ Focuses on delivering business priority and value at all times.

+ Responsible for ensuring the quality of existing and new features through both manual and automated testing and use of continuous integration techniques, where practical.

+ Demonstrates an interest in software architectures and seeks to design solutions in alignment with Company stated architecture and standards.

+ Participate in Proof of Concept work and prototyping when necessary.

+ Collaborates with Business Analysts to confirm understanding of business requirements relating to features to be delivered and to help the Business Analyst define requirements that can be delivered from a technical perspective.

+ Collaborates with User Experience (UX) designers to ensure designs produced can be translated efficiently into working solutions for feature delivery.

+ Collaborates with the agile team to establish the definition of done for each of the stages of production within the team.

+ Collaborate with Test Engineers and Senior Test Engineers to ensure that software meets the definition of done, ensuring successful transition of work to the next stage of production during the sprints.

+ Ensures an innovation culture in the team by continuous improvement of deliveries and participates in evaluating new processes and technologies that can be applied to future feature delivery.

+ Collaborates with Technical Support Engineers to transition software features to a production environment ensuring that the deliveries meet application performance criteria, release standards; and ensures application and system stability.

+ Automates testing of software to industry standards of software automation ensuring very high-quality application/solution delivery and efficient regression of existing features.

+ Ensures that the latest project progress is known to the agile team by ensuring Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools are up to date and participating in daily standups outlining progress made, progress planned and detailing impediments.

+ Thinks with the mind of the end customer at all times, ensuring solutions seek to improve the customer experience and delight their customers.

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Our company is built on helping individuals and families, and this starts with our employees. We want employees to maintain a positive balance, which is why we provide access to the benefits and resources they need to invest in themselves. From our onsite fitness facilities and generous paid time off to employee professional development programs, we are committed to helping employees live and work their best – both inside and outside the office.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description, actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location and experience.

$73,300.00-$150,500.00

Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

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