Senior Full Stack Developer

Key Responsibilities:

·      Contribute to all stages of software development lifecycle

·      Analyse user requirements to define business objectives

·      Envisioning system features and functionality

·      Define application objectives and functionality

·      Ensure application designs conform with business goals

·      Identify and resolve any technical issues arising

·      Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging

·      Manage Java and Java EE application development

·      Develop documentation to help users

·      Transforming requirements into stipulations

·      Prepare and produce releases of software components

·      Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review

·      Create & maintain monthly/weekly reports to track progress and performance.

Key Skills & Competencies:

·      Proficiency in Java

·      Core Java, J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring REST APIs, Spring Security, JSP, Web application, Redis, Oauth2, Angular, JQuery, Html, JavaScript

·      Knowledge on MySQL

·      Good experience in SQL server enabled understanding and write complex stored procedures

·      Web frameworks like Spring Boot

Job Title: Senior MEAN/MERN Stack Developer

Location: Hyderabad

Type: Full-time About

Job : We are looking for a skilled and 1 - 4 years experienced Senior MEAN/MERN Stack Developer to join our talented development team. If you are passionate about cutting-edge technologies, have a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions, and thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you. Responsibilities: Develop and maintain robust and scalable web applications using the MEAN/MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular/React, Node.js).

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. Lead the architecture and design of complex software solutions. Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and implement responsive and user-friendly interfaces. Implement best practices in software development, code reviews, and documentation.

Work closely with product owners and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions. Optimise applications for maximum speed and scalability. Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve software defects and issues. Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends in MEAN/MERN stack development and AWS Cloud services.

Requirements: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Proven experience as a Senior MEAN/MERN Stack Developer with a strong portfolio of successfully delivered projects. Solid understanding of the full web development stack and a deep knowledge of MEAN/MERN technologies. Experience with cloud computing platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services). Strong knowledge of RESTful API design and development. Familiarity with Agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. Effective communication and collaboration skills in a team environment. Preferred Skills: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP. Experience with serverless architecture and AWS Lambda. Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools. Knowledge of security best practices in web development and cloud environments.

• 1-5 years of experience in a full stack software development role.
• Experience in technologies - PHP, Bootstrap, Vuejs and MySQL.
• Knowledge of Cloud services (GCP/AWS), MongoDB and Nodejs is a plus.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment
• Ability to design for scale and performance
• Ability to do peer code reviews
• Solid problem-solving skills

Skills: React JS/Next JS, NodeJs, ExpressJs,JavaScript, Typescript, Restful/SOAP web servicesMongo DB(NoSQL/SQL)database technologies.

Experience preferred:

● You have a strong passion for start-ups and the proactiveness to deliver
● You have hands-on experience building services using NodeJs, ExpressJs technologies
● You have hands-on experience of MongoDB (NoSQL/SQL) database technologies.
● You are good at web technologies like React JS/Next JS, JavaScript, Typescript
● You are good at web technologies like Restful/SOAP web services
● You are good at caching and third-party integration
● You are strong on debugging and troubleshooting skills
● If you have Knowledge of Python, Chrome extension & DevOps development is a plus.
● You must be proficient in building scalable backend infrastructure software or distributed systems with exposure to Front-end and backend libraries/frameworks.
● Experience with Databases and micro services architecture is an advantage
● You should be able to push your limits and go beyond your role to scale the product
● Go-getter attitude

•  Experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role 

  • Familiarity with common stacks
  • Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSON, jQuery)
  • Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g., C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Angular, Node.js)
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
  • Great attention to details, Organizational skills, An analytical mind
  • Degree in Computer Science, or relevant field.

  Responsibilities 

  • Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
  • Design client-side and server-side architecture
  • Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
  • Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
  • 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.

   

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!