Full Stack Developer

Role Summary

We’re seeking a highly skilled and self-motivated Senior Software Engineer who thrives in a startup environment. You will lead end-to-end development of key features, own architectural decisions, and ensure the smooth delivery of our product.

Mandatory Skill Sets/Expertise

• 5-6 years of experience in full-stack development, with a strong focus on the MERN / PERN stack (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js) and AWS.

• Expertise in AWS cloud architecture and experience with serverless solutions (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway).

• Proficiency in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Github actions, or similar tools.

• Proven experience leading and guiding a development team, with strong mentoring skills.

• Ability to work independently and manage deliverables without oversight, while thriving in a startup mentality.

• Strong problem-solving abilities with a proactive approach to addressing technical challenges.

• Experience with databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other NoSQL solutions along with ORM tools like Sequalize & Mongoose ORM

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of Typescript for both frontend and backend development. • Experience with Docker and containerized applications.

• Familiarity with GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) tools or SaaS products.

• Experience with other AWS services like ECS, CloudFormation, or RDS.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of developers, driving best practices in coding and architecture.

• Take full ownership of modules, from design through deployment, and launch web apps singlehandedly if needed.

• Design, develop, and maintain web applications using the PERN / MERN stack (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js) with a focus on scalability, security, and performance.

• Prepare high-level technical designs and architectural decisions, especially on AWS serverless architecture and microservices.

• Implement secure, reliable, and scalable solutions using AWS services • Design and manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous integration and automated deployments.

• Optimize application performance through techniques like lazy loading, code splitting, and caching.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product Management, to define features and user experience improvements.

• Ensure high code quality by adhering to SOLID principles, implementing comprehensive testing, and embedding observability into the application.

• Monitor and respond to application performance incidents, focusing on improving uptime and resilience.

• Proactively offer suggestions during retrospectives and work on enhancing team productivity metrics such as Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, and Mean-Time-to-Recovery

As a developer at CultureMonkey, you will be joining a world-class team of domain experts who are passionate about technology and people. An ideal day at CultureMonkey will see you working closely with the founding team to ideate and implement new features to enhance our product. As an organization helping top companies build a positive work culture, we are pretty serious about practicing what we preach. Work-life balance is a big deal here!

What you bring to the table:

• Writing and maintaining reliable code that abides to Object Oriented Design.
• Own up implementation of the entire module (comprises front-end and back-end components)
• Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs in the product.
• Collaborate with customer success team to understand and analyze the requirements to build efficient solutions.
• Maintaining APIs.
• Participate in design reviews and architecture discussions.
• Optimize application for performance and scalability.

What it takes:

• Ability to learn and write production-ready code
• Basic understanding of Object oriented programming and MVC.
• Exposure to front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Familiar in database concepts and writing SQL queries.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with an ability to communicate technical information, both written and oral, to technical and non-technical reviewers.

Extra brownie points if you have

• Hands on experience in Ruby on Rails.
• Basic understanding of Elastic-search
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Exposure to RESTful api.

Apart from financial gains, to know more about the benefits of working at CultureMonkey, you can refer to the following link: https://www.culturemonkey.io/life-at-cultureMonkey/

• Working days: 6 Days (Alternate Saturday are off)
• Timing: Normal day shift
• Experience: 1-3 Years
• Budget: (Depends on the candidature)

    Job Description :

       Should know html/CSS/PHP/Node/javascript/bootstrap
       Location- Permanent Work from home
       Immediate joiners preferred

Note:- People who want to restart their career may also apply.

PS : The candidate should be able to communicate well

About Company:

It is not just a technology company.  We are a solutions company that uses technology as an enabler.  We offer predictable delivery time and predictable cost with a focus on your outcome and needs. We do this by making otherwise unpredictable nature of transformational journey, a predictable one. 

 We believe in recognizing & sharing failures early in order to deliver with reduce leakages. With this philosophy and our unique ability to blend technologies, we have delivered value to several clients such as CTK Cosmetics, TravelSouq, WEM APAC, GEOSPOC, AREA 51 and.  Many more are digitizing their journey to transformational adoption and we would love to be a part of your success story too.

In Brief
Urgent Hiring • Re-location Required
Company Founded 2018 • 1-5 employees
Internet and Technology Startup • Bootstrapped

About us
Based out of Egypt and with presence in the GCC, Quesst Technologies is an early Internet and Tech Startup committed to helping thousands of nationals, residents and travelers in the MENA region, saving them time and effort in seeking reliable and credible knowledge within their communities and localities.

Quesst, the company's flagship platform, is a hyper-local Q&A and knowledge sharing platform that offers the necessary infrastructure for users seeking information to meet, share, engage and interact with one another and with verified subject matter experts.

Who we're looking for
Ideally the successful candidate will have experience in the start-up world and is in a position for a new challenge to take this company to the next level. Someone who is passionate about delivering a scalable and highly performant state-of-the-art cloud-based platforms built with technologies utilizing the JavaScript ecosystem, AI/ML and the latest web technologies to help solve exciting real world problems.

We are looking for an agile and entrepreneurial leader with strong people leadership and technical capability who has a problem-solving and analytical aptitude, excellent communication and presentation skills, is familiar with statistics, has a business acumen, independent, positive can-do attitude, and passion for excellence to the workplace.

Your role and our tech stack
Reporting to the founder, you will be expected to develop, deploy and oversee the execution of the tech strategy, product road-map and operations to ensure alignment with our businesses goals as we grow and scale. You will play a key part in the organisation's success, taking the current MVP and developing it further to move the company through to early stage funding and into profit.

Quesst's is built using React.js [Frontend], Node.js [Backend], PostgreSQL [DB], Amazon EC2 [Application Hosting], Amazon S3 [Media Storage Service], and Amazon SES [Email Sending Service]. You will be responsible for implementing full-stack features and collaborate with other team members to plan each sprint. You’ll be working across the entire system architecture and be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining restful APIs, micro-services and databases.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop, improve and optimize the structure, quality, and extensibility of current software technologies, codebases and databases
• Prototype ideas to quickly access viability and iterate based on feedback from the team
• Build robust, web-based applications interacting with databases, file-systems and APIs
• Write custom code or integrate open source technologies as needed to find solutions to problems
• Design and build effective APIs; Create servers and databases for functionality
• Design client-side and server-side architecture; Design the data model ensuring scalability
• Accurately translate screen designs into functional front-end code; Develop features and with a mobile responsive design
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable and reusable code and libraries; Conduct code reviews and establishment of best practices
• Participate in planning activities; Estimate accurate stores for new features and design product features
• Help define processes and build tools as needed to scale the solution and the team
• Create and lead the product road-map; Proactively breakdown work, manage development sprints, identify risks and explore solutions
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency; Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software; Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving
• Steer the business on timescales, prioritization and costs on competing development requirements
• Drive rigorous, and weekly product releases and lead required integration efforts with partners and/or third-party software services
• Guide the development in design, architecture and platform choices with strong focus on quality, speed, stability and scalability
• Identify and establish best practices and frameworks keeping in mind parameters of performance, responsiveness, security, maintainability, extensibility, and reuse; Work collaboratively in a lean and agile environment; Write technical documentation
• Recommend and implement new technologies, improvement of existing tech and set-up and future-proofing our technology that can help the company optimize efficiency and productivity and lead edge thinking and knowledge of innovative technologies i.e. AI, ML, blockchain, etc..

Your qualifications

• Minimum of BSc in Computer Science/IT/Electronics/Software Engineering or a comparable degree program
• Proven experience of 2-5 years of full-stack development of web applications; 2+ years building front-end interfaces with React.js & Redux workflows and 2+ years building back-end and maintaining server applications on Node.js, PostgreSQL and designing APIs
• Expert in traditional web-dev stack (HTML5, CSS3, JS); Strong in core JavaScript (ES5, ES6, ESNext, TypeORM and Typescript) and JS object model
• Experience with Linux environments and using the shell and command line terminals (preferred)
• Professional coding experience in object-oriented and scripting languages; Extensive experience building client-side web applications using React
• Proficient with:
  • JavaScript Frameworks (ReactJS/NextJS/Redux) and Node.js Frameworks (Express.js)
  • Client-side MVC frameworks such as NodeJS, React JS, NextJS, Redux, and AngularJS; Knowledge of isomorphic React
  • Configuration of various servers to run web application servers, databases, etc.; Web server technologies like Nginx, NodeJS, Apache, etc.
  • Frontend CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Material UI and preprocessors like SASS and SCSS/LESS
  • Writing and integrating middleware; Experience with Redux Saga and Thunk
  • Architecture, design, queries of Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL and other RDBMS)
  • Modern JS tooling (NPM, Webpack, Babel, ESLint and Prettier)
  • Developer tools, such as Visual Studio Code
  • Code versioning tools and Git version control systems (Github); Containerization systems (Docker)
  • Strong in data structures, XML technologies, JSON parsing
  • Caching frameworks and mechanisms, work-task queues, transactions and messaging queues (Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ and others)
  • Building real-time applications using Web Sockets (Socket.io)
  • Web and mobile push notifications and cloud message APIs (GCM, APNS, OneSignal, etc.)
  • Setting up cron jobs and schedule task execution
  • Handling Services, RESTful, APIs, third party libraries and APIs (Google APIs, AWS, Zendesk, etc.)

• Experience with API gateway, distributed infrastructure architectures and applications tuning/profiling; Experience working with microservices
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments; Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
• Experience with REST API and web service construction, integration and architecture and working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Authentication and Security Technologies
• Familiarity with building secure systems (OWASP secure coding practices or similar)
• Architect and cloud-deploy applications on AWS and other cloud providers
• Deep understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Build and manage end-to-end and UI tests; Experience writing tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.), and using testing frameworks
• Build third-party integrations like Slack, Stripe, Google and supporting their workflow
• Provision DevOps tooling with continuous integration; Build modern Front-end build pipelines and tools
• Contribute to API documentation including API description languages like Swagger; Document and diagram functional flows and architectures
• Experience in building rich PWA applications; Experience in responsive design, cross browser compatibility and website performance
• Understanding of how browsers and DOM work; Understanding and experience with asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation
• Expert level using Web Analytics tools (Google Analytics and others); Experience with open source software development
• Experience with localization and internationalization of applications (working with multi-site setups, multi-language, i18n, etc.)

Some desired extras and good to have skills

• Knowledge of cyber-security, malware analysis, threat detection and/or sandboxing technology
• Preferably has knowledge of working in big data (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) and machine learning ecosystems
• Strong background in security and data analytics and on-premise data experience
• Experience and familiarity with:
  • Architecture, design, queries and aggregation of NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra and others)
  • Elasticsearch and ELK stack
  • Developing integrations for global OTAs
  • OpenAPI
• Knowledge of multiple backend languages and framework

We offer you

• A unique entrepreneurial opportunity to build something from the ground up and scale it up to a major regionally recognizable brand
• A great learning curve in a collaborative environment with no barriers for initiatives
• Leading compensation package including salary free of local taxes, accommodation allowance for local hire or shared accommodation for international hire, free medical care from company physician, free government healthcare membership, transport allowance, paid airfare to the country of origin, paid leave and end of service according to local labor law.

Your professional career growth opportunities
As you help us grow Quesst, we will help you grow and professionally develop. Joining us at this stage, you will have the opportunity to be part of the core team if you prove you have what it takes and will be given the opportunity to:

• Lead and develop a technical strategy for the company, which involves goal setting, discussing options, and analyzing risks with the management team, CEO and board members
• An opportunity to build and manage a business unit from scratch and scale it up to success at a regional level
• Attract and retain top tech talent, mentor and manage the team as it grows
• Develop and manage KPIs for the tech team and create a challenging work environment

Have we caught your attention?
Send us your application including your resume, salary expectations and earliest starting date.

We’re looking forward to your application!