Digital Democracy is looking for an experienced React Native developer, who has experience working with iOS native APIs and Apple’s App Store Deployment, to deploy Mapeo Mobile to iOS. Mapeo is a cutting-edge open-source mobile and desktop mapping app using React Native and a peer-to-peer backend in Node (via nodejs-mobile). Mapeo is primarily used by remote and marginalized communities to document, map, monitor, manage and report information on environmental and human rights issues around the world.
We’ve seen firsthand that change does not come from technology, but from how people use it. We are building tools our partners are using to achieve transformative change. We are dedicated to working towards a world where all people can participate in the decisions that govern their lives.
You will work with our growing, small team of four engineers and designers to take our existing React Native App and deploy it to Apple’s App Store. This will include working with some native modules (including compiling C++ to iOS) and writing React-Native code specific to the iOS app. You will have experience in CI/CD using Expo App Services. And you are familiar with using Git for collaboration. This is a short-term, output-based contract, paid on completion of agreed milestones. Ideally we would like to see this work done within two months, but this can be negotiated.
We are a small, high-impact team that takes a collaborative approach to tool-building and decision-making. Our tool development is led by our partner communities. You would be building Mapeo Mobile on iOS that will be tested and used by our partners to confront real problems on the ground in the Amazon and around the world: Protection of the world’s forests and their ancestral homelands from deforestation and contamination. We need someone who can think creatively and collaboratively to solve these problems.
Our small but growing team is based in Montreal & Squamish, Canada; New York, DC Metro Area & Washington State, USA; Barcelona, Spain; Goiás, Brazil; Lima, Peru; Hastings & Edinburgh, U.K. and we welcome candidates from around the world, especially South America. We embrace distributed working, and are happy for you to work from where you live. The Indigenous communities we work with have lived through colonization and deal with its effects everyday, along with marginalization and discrimination against their language and culture. It is therefore particularly important that we build a diverse team with individuals who understand and empathize with their situation. Indigenous people, people of color, women, LGBTQ folk and others who identify as coming from a marginalized identity are strongly urged to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.