Full Stack Developer

We are looking for a Senior Web Developer to build and maintain functional web pages and applications.

Senior Web Developer responsibilities include leading a team of junior developers, refining website specifications and resolving technical issues. To be successful in this role, you should have extensive experience building web pages from scratch and in-depth knowledge of at least one of the following programming languages: Javascript, Ruby or PHP.

Ultimately, you will ensure our web pages are up and running and cover both internal and customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Identify user and system requirements for new websites and applications
• Prioritize software development projects, set timelines and assign tasks to team members
• Create wireframes to decide on the layout
• Write or review code for various applications
• Run functionality testings and debug code
• Oversee junior web developers and evaluate their performance
• Liaise with designers to decide on UI/UX elements (like graphics and navigation buttons)
• Ensure our software documentation is up-to-date
• Collaborate with mobile developers to build mobile-responsive websites

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent.
• 6 years experience delivering highly available web/mobile applications including 1-3 years as Senior/Lead developer.
• Prior experience in retail domain is a plus.
• 3 years of experience working with distributed teams.
• Deep knowledge of UI Libraries / Frameworks, API (REST), API Management and building scalable and high performance Web APIs.
• Must have experience building websites using Javascript and Java technologies (e.g. Typescript, Spring Boot etc.). Search Engine and Native App development experience is a plus.
• AWS Serverless Cloud native services experience with Lambda functions, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway etc.
• Strong knowledge of Caching frameworks, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL data stores, storage and distributed persistence technologies.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Passionate about enabling next generation experiences.
• Experience with automated testing, deployment pipelines and cloud based infrastructure

• Develop omni-channel digital solutions leveraging serverless and micro services in a cloud based platform to develop backend services.
• Design high/low level solutions, contribute towards architecture and technical roadmap.
• Lead technical implementation/delivery.
• Host/Lead technical discussions.
• Champion software development best practices, test driven development, CI and CD.
• Build cloud native and highly cost efficient solutions.
• Innovate, Unlearn and Disrupt. Research next generation frameworks and technologies.
• Embrace change. 

• Professional experience in enterprise java software development using Spring MVC framework , RESTful  APIs and SOA
• Experience working in Cloud(AWS)
• Outstanding problem solving skills
• API Development experience
• Exposure to monitoring tools such as ELK, Splunk
• Experience with Selenium for UI automated tests written in Cucumber or Scala
•  Able to handle day-to-day challenges and owning the resolution of issues as they arise.

Development of Web based Applications using latest technologies like, AngularJS, Node.js, SQL Developer, MongoDb. Designing and developing user interfaces using AngularJS best practices. Adapting interface for modern internet applications using the latest front-end technologies, Writing JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, Developing product analysis tasks.

Company Profile:

Saffron Tech Private Limited

Saffron Tech is a result driven digital transformation company in New Jersey (NJ) & New Delhi. We are known for transforming businesses to digitization. We are providing development services and IT solutions to its clients across the globe. Being in the field of IT for more than 10 years now, the company has successfully executed over 1500 projects for its clients. Saffron Tech Pvt Ltd is a multi-faceted IT firm adept at providing Web and Mobile Application Development, IT Offshore Staffing and Digital Marketing Services.

We are servicing over 500 clients from across the globe. We are a strong 150+ member family at the moment working from state of the art office premises close to Saket, South Delhi. Our primary operational markets are USA, UK, APAC and Middle East. To know more about us and our brands please visit http://www.saffrontech.net/" target="_blank">http://www.saffrontech.net/

• Collaborate well with engineers, researchers, and data implementation specialists to design and create advanced, elegant and efficient systems
• Good experience as a MEAN Stack Developer.
• In depth experience in  NodeJS, ExpressJS, Angular, Mongo DB, JavaScript.
  
• Experience implementing applications using Angular 1 or React
• Experience creating front end applications using HTML5, Angular, LESS/SASS
• Hands on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns, minimum one-year experience with MEAN Fullstack paradigm.

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!

A full-stack developer handles both: Front-end and Back-end. need to build web pages, websites, create UI, make the website simple and attractive.

Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux) along with CSS3 and HTML5. You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important. 

React Native, MongoDB, Node JS Knowledge is a plus.    

Responsibilities

1. Design the overall architecture of the web application.
2. Maintain quality and ensure the responsiveness of applications.
3. Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
4. Maintain code integrity and organization.
5. Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual elements.
6. Understanding and implementation of security and data protection.

Qualifications

• Graduation/ masters in computer science
• Good communication
• Minimum 1 years of experience in mobile application and web application development.
• Front end Skills: Html, CSS, JavaScript ES6, React JS, react-native.
• Back end skills: Node Js, Mongo DB (Added advantage)