React Native Engineer (Corporate)
About Us:
Come collaborate with us in creating the digital experience for the most iconic gaming resorts in Las Vegas and around the world!
Experienced by millions of guests each year, the Caesars Entertainment Digital Products team crafts customer experiences that fuel the imaginations of our guests on the Strip in Las Vegas and across the globe. Our iconic global brands include Caesars Palace, The Flamingo, The Row, Horseshoe, Harrah’s, Paris, Nobu Hotel, and more.
Job Summary:
Based in Las Vegas or Remote, and reporting to the Director of eCommerce Products, this role is responsible for the engineering of the Caesars Entertainment booking engine and reservation experiences for over 50+ properties that: 1) enable guests and Caesars Rewards members to book rooms direct 2) upgrade rooms; 3) select payment types and methods, 4) manage their reservation after booking.
This role participates on the team responsible for breaking down and translating user stories into working code, which includes 1) estimating; 2) technical design; 3) pair or ensemble programming; 4) reviews & testing; 5) deployment; and 6) stabilization to move the product forward from user story to a working feature in our guest’s hands.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of delivering modern, immersive, and engaging digital experiences via React, React Native, and React Native Web development and leading responsive web, and react native app engineering. This leader must excel at coaching and mentoring developers within her/his scrum team. The React Engineer will partner with other engineers to define development principles, standards, tooling, and patterns in contribution to a React code library that can scale across all digital channels: web/app/tv/kiosk; and all teams in the Digital Products department.
The React Engineer is responsible for collaborating in our Engineering community of practice –including bi-weekly discussions, reading/actively listening to associated books, podcasts, articles, etc.
Key Job Functions:
- Day-to-day: will include primarily writing, debugging and deploying code for the booking engine & reservation management
- Cross team consistency: Maintain consistent usage of standardized technology patterns across multiple teams and engineers.
- Get to Ready: Translate user stories into technical requirements to get to the team’s “definition of ready”
- Coaching: Provide leadership to engineers on the team and while researching and solving technical problems independently
- Execution: Ability to execute solutions for our digital products
- Community Leader: Participate in Caesars Engineering community (i.e., Lodging Management Systems, Martech and Content Ops, IT Ops, Cyber Security, etc.) in product development and support of production systems
- Delivery: Responsible for the timely delivery of digital customer journeys across a variety of channels
- Communication: Actively engages to define, prioritize, and collaborate on the various needs of our customers
- Standards: Execute and improve Caesars Digital Product principles, standards, and practices.
- Quality: Responsible for the delivery of defect-free products to the customer.
Qualifications:
- 2+ years of professional software development experience, preferably in web frontend development
- 1+ years’ experience in web development with a React JS framework and Single Page Architecture
- Experience in designing and engineering in React Native and/or React Native Web
- Experience building mobile apps (iOS/Android) with React Native
- Comfortable creating gestures, animations and deep-linking in React Native
- Demonstrable portfolio of products in market that showcase fast, UI with motion, intelligent load sequencing, video, and parallax or modern techniques.
- Experience with developer skills in:
- Web development
- JavaScript Single Page Architecture (SPA)
- Web APIs
- Amazon Web Services® (AWS®)
- Experience working with a wide variety of third-party platforms, frameworks, and libraries
- Experience working in teams/organizations that bring high quality digital products to market
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to effectively present complex information clearly and appropriately handle sensitive information
- Deep curiosity in emerging digital trends and ability to translate into friction-less customer experiences
- Proactive work ethic
Additional Relevant Qualifications:
- Experience with Adobe Marketing Cloud®, primarily AEM Sites®, Target®, and Analytics® or similar MarTech
- Experience with Atlassian® Application Lifecycle Management tools (Jira®, Confluence®, etc.)
- Experience with Agile principles and frameworks
- Able to foster open communication, while collaborating with others
- Views critical feedback as a ‘gift’, an opportunity for improvement