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[Remote] Mobile Application Developer

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GDX Development supports clients facing high-paced national security challenges by building modern software that fuses sensor, system, and team data into an Adaptive Mission Surface for tactical-edge operations. The Mobile Application Developer will develop and maintain React Native mobile applications, implement geospatial and systems-integration capabilities, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable, intuitive experiences for mission-critical users.

Responsibilities

  • Mobile feature delivery: Translate approved requirements into well-scoped mobile features, including technical approach, implementation, testing, release readiness, and iteration based on user feedback
  • React Native application development: Build and maintain production-quality code, reusable components, navigation flows, state management, and mobile-specific behaviors that are clean, maintainable, and performant
  • User experience consistency: Establish and improve consistent visual, interaction, and usability patterns across GDX’s mobile experience while contributing to shared UI/UX standards for web products
  • Mapping and geospatial functionality: Implement and support mapping features, data presentation, and user interactions using Mapbox and related geospatial capabilities
  • Systems integrations: Build and maintain dependable integrations with internal systems, third-party services, and APIs. Identify integration risks early and partner with the appropriate technical owners to resolve them
  • Product collaboration: Participate actively in discovery, design reviews, prototyping, estimation, and feature tradeoff discussions with product, engineering, and leadership
  • Quality and reliability: Validate work before release, investigate defects, protect usability and performance, and contribute to a practical, disciplined release process
  • Own work to completion: Drive assigned priorities forward without waiting for step-by-step direction. Escalate decisions, risks, dependencies, or changes in scope early
  • Deliver predictably: Break work into understandable increments, provide realistic estimates, communicate progress regularly, and meet agreed-upon delivery commitments
  • Build for the next developer: Write clear, maintainable code and document key technical decisions, dependencies, integrations, and operational considerations
  • Make the product easier to use: Apply strong UI/UX judgment to reduce ambiguity, improve user flows, and create a clean, coherent interface appropriate for field use
  • Collaborate with discipline: Receive feedback constructively, provide practical technical input, and help leadership understand effort, tradeoffs, and release implications
  • Work securely and responsibly: Follow established development, data-handling, access, and release practices appropriate for sensitive or regulated customer environments

Skills

  • • Proven experience developing, releasing, and maintaining mobile applications using React Native
  • • Strong JavaScript and Node.js skills, including hands-on experience integrating APIs, third-party services, and system-to-system integrations
  • • Demonstrated ability to create attractive, intuitive, and coherent mobile user interfaces and user experiences
  • • Working proficiency in developing or extending native React Native modules when features require platform-level capabilities
  • • Hands-on experience with mapping or geospatial applications, particularly Mapbox
  • • Ability to manage competing priorities, communicate clearly, and deliver independently in a remote work environment
  • • Experience developing software for government, defense, or similarly mission-critical end users
  • • Familiarity with web application development and modern front-end frameworks
  • • Experience with GIS tools, additional mapping platforms, or data-rich geospatial interfaces
  • • Understanding of secure development practices for sensitive, regulated, or controlled environments
  • • Based in or near the Tampa Bay area for periodic in-person collaboration

Benefits

  • Remote work environment
  • Periodic in-person collaboration for candidates based in or near the Tampa Bay area

Company Overview

  • GDS is a leading provider of software solutions and sensor fusion, with a focus on delivery toward critical mission requirements from our clients. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in St Petersburg, Florida, US, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is .