Fullstack Developer

What You’ll Do:

We’re looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join us early, own critical systems, and help shape both the product and the engineering culture from day one.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Own end-to-end product development, from user experience to backend integration
• Build and scale a modern SPA using React, TypeScript, Vite, and Tailwind Design intuitive, high-trust UIs for finance workflows (payments, approvals, dashboards)
• Collaborate closely with backend systems written in Go via well-designed APIs
• Translate product requirements into clean, maintainable components and state models
• Optimize frontend performance, bundle size, and load times for complex dashboards
• Work directly with founders and design partners to iterate rapidly on product direction
• Establish frontend best practices around architecture, testing, and developer experience
• Contribute across the stack when needed, including API design and data modeling discussions.

What You’ll Need:

• Strong experience with Go in production systems
• Solid backend fundamentals: APIs, distributed systems, concurrency, and data modeling
• Hands-on experience with AWS, including deploying and operating production services
• Deep familiarity with Postgres, including schema design, indexing, and performance considerations
• Comfort working in early-stage environments with ambiguity, ownership, and rapid iteration
• Product mindset — you care about why you’re building something, not just how
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Experience with Tailwind or other utility-first CSS frameworks
• Familiarity with design systems and component libraries
• Experience building fintech or enterprise SaaS UIs
• Exposure to AI-powered UX (LLM-driven workflows, assistants, or automation)
• Prior experience as an early engineer or founder
• product engineering culture from the ground up.

Responsibilities:

● Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions.

● Design user-side and server-side architecture.

● Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design.

● Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications on MYSQL.

● Write effective APIs.

● Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency.

● Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software.

● Create security and data protection settings.

● Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design.

● Write technical documentation.

Requirements:

● Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.

● Experience developing web and mobile applications. ● Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript).

● Knowledge of back-end language(Node.js) and JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React, Vue but preferably React).

● Familiarity with MySQL databases, web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design.

● Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

● Great attention to detail Organizational skills. The knowledge of following, will fetch you brownie points during interviews:

● Ruby on Rails.

● Familiarity with AWS.

● Familiarity with Docker

Description:

We are looking for a highly motivated Full Stack Backend Software Intern to join our team. The ideal candidate should have a strong interest in AI, LLM (Large Language Models), and related technologies, along with the ability to work independently and complete tasks with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities:

• Research and gather requirements for backend software projects.
• Develop, test, and maintain backend components of web applications.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Complete tasks with minimal hand-holding and supervision.
• Assist with frontend tasks using JavaScript and React if required.

Requirements:

• Proficiency in backend development languages such as Python or Node.js
• Familiarity with frontend technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of AI, LLM, and related technologies is a plus.
• Ability to work independently and complete tasks with minimal supervision.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science or related field.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies in AI and LLM.
• Hands-on experience in developing backend systems for web applications.
• Mentorship from experienced developers and engineers.
• Flexible working hours and a supportive work environment.
• Possibility of a full-time position based on performance.
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If you are passionate about backend development, AI, and LLM, and are eager to learn and grow in a dynamic environment, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team as a Full Stack Backend Software Intern.

Technical Skills & Competencies: Mandatory:

Web Development – HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Frameworks – ReactJS/AngularJS

Server-side development – Python/Django/Node.js

Database: SQL or NoSQL Databases (SQL Server/ MongoDB)

API Design concepts and Development of RESTful web services

Preferable:

• Familiarity with the Development of reusable frameworks, libraries to be used by multiple development teams
• Familiarity with cloud-native application architecture patterns
• Hands-on experience on project management tools like Jira
• Experience using DevOps Tools for CI/CD
• Conversant with agile methodologies

Roles & Responsibilities

• Work independently or in a small team setup
• Manage a team of highly skilled Frontend/Full Stack and Backend developers
• Creating, executing, and maintaining project plans including activity definition, sequence, dependencies, work effort, duration, and resource requirements
• Work with the technical team, communicating requirements and ensuring all product development meets the goals of the project and overall business and strategic goals
• Project management including release management, add-on compatibility reporting, updating documentations
• Assist in other ad-hoc or administrative tasks as part of daily/routine business activities
• Work with product technical architects to design new products or enhancements. Take part in system development including analysis, coding, and testing
• Performs design and code reviews with senior technical staff
• Act like the person everyone turns to resolve tough technical problems
• Work closely with other teams/vendors to connect front-end components with the other (often third-party) web and data services and support the back-end developers by integrating their work with the application
• Mentors team on proper standards/techniques to improve their accuracy and efficiency
• Performs the unit testing, system integration testing and assist with user acceptance testing
• Articulates business requirements in sufficient detail such that a technical solution can be designed and engineered
• Develops technical understanding of how the data flows from various source
• Provide ongoing support to applications used within the organization

Requirement

• 5+ years of experience in product development, with 2+ years of experience in a leadership role in current organization
• Reliable, self-motivated, and self-disciplined individual capable of planning and executing multiple projects simultaneously within a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional debugging skills and strong experience with performance tuning
• Excellent technical, analytical, and organizational skills
• Good range of hands-on technical experience
• Expert knowledge in Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Expert understanding of Node.js and JavaScript
• Familiarity with code revisioning and repo maintenance on Git, code profiling and auditing

• Proven 4+ years of experience in MEAN or MERN stack frameworks
• In-depth knowledge of NodeJS, React Js Express.JS along with the
• JavaScript Development frameworks on both client and server-side
• Skilled in Web App development (React + Redux) with Frameworks like Bootstrap / Material
• Deep understanding of HTML DOM objects, CSS & JavaScript events, and experience in various build tools like NPM / Webpack.
• Proficiency with both consuming, designing, and integrating APIs (RESTful and SOAP) using redux/thunk
• Designing database for a scalable and secure system using NoSQL (MongoDB) or RDBMS (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
• Thorough understanding and relatable experience of Git, repository management, and related workflows.
• Excellent communication and customer interfacing skills
• Should have problem-solving, prioritizing tasks, multitasking abilities
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices

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!

Job Description :

• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Experience building complex web application.
• Hands on experience with programming stacks like MEAN, MERN, LAMP
• Participate in software/product development from ideation to deployment and beyond.
• Should have good knowledge on build tools like Maven, NPM, NODEJS.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers; awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations
• Should have a good understanding of database concepts.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, VSTS)
• Working knowledge of Agile/SCRUM development methodologies and best practices.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Working on Cloud[AWS/Azure] based environment is a huge plus
• Recommending new policies, approaches, and procedures.

Responsibilities :

• Ability to work with project delivery goal as mindset.
• Use advanced modelling tools & techniques to build full stack applications.
• Strong understanding on how to document and create a functional plan for complex project.
• Knowledge of creating Information Architecture, Server Architecture & State-flow diagram to better understand complex project.
• Ability to take risks, strive for learning & implementing new practice with maintaining project deliverables.
• Be seen as a leader for a group of engineers working to quickly design, prototype and build new features per requirement.
• Strong ability to handle a naive team & able to get the required output delivered.
• Build scalable/reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Interact with other team leads and departments to accomplish a project requirement.