Senior Fullstack Developer

1. Develop and maintain server-side logic and APIs using Node.js.
2. Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
3. Design and implement scalable, secure, and maintainable backend solutions.
4. Work with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
5. Optimize application performance and troubleshoot production issues.
6. Follow best practices for testing, deployment, and code quality.
7. Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in backend

Job Overview: We are seeking a skilled MERN Stack Developer responsible for designing and developing robust and scalable web applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment) and be proficient in the MERN stack: MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js.

Key Responsibilities:

• Full Stack Development: Design, develop, and deploy full-stack web applications using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js).
• API Development: Build RESTful APIs and integrate them with front-end components.
• Database Management: Design, manage, and optimize MongoDB databases for high-performance and scalability.
• UI/UX Collaboration: Work closely with UI/UX designers to implement responsive and user-friendly interfaces.
• Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, following best practices and coding standards.
• Testing and Debugging: Perform unit testing, debugging, and integration testing to ensure the quality and functionality of the application.
• Version Control: Use Git for version control and collaborate with other developers on code management.
• Continuous Learning: Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in web development and apply them to projects.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Proficiency in:
• React.js: Strong understanding of React.js and its core principles, including hooks, state management, and component lifecycle.
• Node.js & Express.js: In-depth knowledge of Node.js and Express.js for server-side development.
• MongoDB: Experience with MongoDB for database design, development, and optimization.
• JavaScript/ES6+: Proficiency in modern JavaScript (ES6+) and understanding of asynchronous programming.

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Full Stack React Developer who is passionate about building and maintaining scalable mobile and web applications. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both front-end and back-end development, with expertise in React for web and React Native for mobile development. You will work closely with our founder to implement new features, optimize performance, and ensure the highest quality user experience across both platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the front-end of our app using React for web and React Native for mobile.

• Build and manage the back-end services and APIs to support both the mobile and web apps, including database design and integration.

• Implement responsive design principles to ensure the app works seamlessly across various devices and screen sizes.

• Optimize the app for maximum speed and scalability.

• Integrate third-party services and APIs as needed.

• Troubleshoot and debug issues to ensure the apps run smoothly on both web and mobile platforms.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role with a focus on React and React Native.

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• Experience with back-end frameworks (Node.js, Express, Firebase etc.).

• Proficiency in database design and management (Firestore, SQL, NoSQL).

• Experience with RESTful APIs and third-party integrations.

• Familiarity with version control systems (Git).

• Knowledge of responsive design principles and mobile-first development.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a remote team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in building and scaling e-commerce or rental platforms.

• Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, etc.).

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

• Knowledge of UI/UX design principles.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing high-quality applications. They will also be responsible for designing and implementing testable and scalable code.

Responsibilities

• Develop quality software and web applications
• Analyze and maintain existing software applications
• Design highly scalable, testable code
• Discover and fix programming bugs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
• Development experience with programming languages Python, Javascript, NodeJS
• At least 2-3 years of experience in Python and React
• SQL database or relational database skills
• Strong understanding of the software development cycle
• Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervision are a must
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to interact with all levels in the organization

Leaders at The Seenit Co. are passionate about using technology to create an impact on the world they live in. At Seenit, you will get to collaborate with an accomplished team that loves solving real-world problems. You will get to work on cutting edge projects that will shape the next phase of growth for the global luxury industry.

Seenit’s suite of products (http://www.styleade.com/" target="_blank">www.styleade.com) enables the leading luxury retailers around the world to transform their customer experience and build loyal relationships with their customers. The apps allow retailers to make use of their existing infrastructure and resources to deliver a truly omnichannel experience in today's rapidly changing world of shopping. The product has added 50 million USD to the top-line of one of the largest luxury retailers in the world. Store Associates and Stylists have assisted upwards of 100,000 consumers till date.

We would welcome someone to the team who wishes to:

• take ownership of the quality of code powering the product
• take an active role in the definition and evolution of best industry practices and procedures
• design, develop and test the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
• contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• support others to succeed and shine in a supportive team culture

• 4+ years experience in building consumer products
• experience of leading a team of 3 or more full stack developer
• Codeigniter Preferred 
• Good knowledge of Mysql and query optimisation
• Experience with PHP 7, HTML5, AJAX, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, MVC frameworks (Bootstrap), API
• Experience with Ubuntu OS is a plus
• experience deploying softwares to cloud providers such as GCP, AWS

1. Roles & Responsibilities -
   
   * We are looking for full-stack/back-end developers.
   * Our ideal candidate will be able to build applications from scratch and deliver
   a complete project i.e. understand requirements, design architecture, write reusable code that follows basic coding standards, test, deploy and support/follow-up features.
   * As a start-up, we are keen to work with people who are passionate about technology and who love the speed, chaos, and versatility of start-ups.
   
   Skills and Qualifications -
   
   * Team player with strong work ethic; Detail and deadline-oriented; Take ownership of tasks.
   * Good with version control systems like Git.
   * Professional understanding of CS fundamentals, data structures and algorithms.
   * Knowledge of Python is preferred.
   * Hands-on experience with front-end technologies - HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap library & JavaScript/jQuery.
   * Knowledge of Angular 2/ReactJs is a plus.
   * Knowledge of Rest API is a plus.
   
   
   Perks -
   * Competetive compensation
   * MaBook
   * Friendly Leave Policy

• Someone’s traveling to airport/office/home - can we suggest them public transport routes with first mile & last mile and accurate tracking of the individual leg of the journey
• Someone’s new in the city - can we help them travel from A to B in the most efficient way
• Someone’s planning to not use their private vehicle for the commute - can we design an efficient and reliable system to plan their commute with accurate information of public and private transport
• Transition people from private to hybrid multimodal commute
• Someone's traveling home late at night - can we give their friends, family peace of mind?
• Build a single mobile ticket for the entire journey

What you’ll do

• Build the backend and deploy systems powering the app
• Improve routing across 10+ cities for everything from walking to trains to electric scooters to metro to bus to auto to bike
• Integrate new private transport companies and new ways of getting about our cities
• Develop smarter ways of integrating the payment systems with the app
• Extract, process and crunch together departure times, travel habits, and pricing information and suggest reliable results to users
• Create experiences that delight your friends, family, and millions of new commuters when they come and visit your city
• Design and build systems that scale on demand and are secure
• Deploy and support your code on AWS
• Best practices: code reviews, tests, CI
• Teach us how to be better our Stack (Required) Java (Spring Boot), Postgres, MongoDB, ReactJs, Golang Microservice Nginx, API Gateway, Load Balancer, Kafka, Redis, Websockets, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, AWS - EC2, RDS, s3, lambda Optional Nodejs(Express)

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!