Technical Lead

●       Deep knowledge and hands-on experience of Java & UI stack.

●       Proficient experience of web technologies, frameworks and tools like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, NodeJS, XML, jQuery, Spring, etc.

●       Should be well versed with State Management, Redux, Reducers, Java Script, CSS in ReactJS/UI

●       Practical experience of test-driven development and constant refactoring in continuous integration environment.

●       Experience in Oracle PL/SQL programming is required, knowledge of SQL and relational databases

●       Experience working in an agile team, practicing Scrum, Kanban, or XP

●       Experience of performing Functional Analysis is highly desirable.

●       Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

People skills:

●       End to end ownership in driving team towards delivery.

●       Performance and productivity orientation to promote high-quality results.

●       Profound analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.

●       Good communication and excellent interpersonal skills.

●       Pro-active and flexible working approach.

●       Ability to think outside the box to resolve problems.

●       Efficient and well organized, detail oriented.

We are looking for a talented Fullstack Developer with 2-5 years of experience to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have experience with MongoDB, Express, React, and Node. As a Fullstack Developer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our web-based applications and services.

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with the product and engineering teams to develop high-quality web-based applications and services.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express.
• Design and develop the front-end user interface using React.
• Create and maintain MongoDB databases and related services.
• Develop and maintain automated test cases for both front-end and back-end applications.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure code quality.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web development and AI.

Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of experience as a Fullstack Developer with expertise in MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.
• Experience in developing RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express.
• Experience in front-end development using React.
• Experience in database development using MongoDB.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in automated testing using Jest, Cypress, or other similar frameworks is a plus.
• Experience in AWS or other cloud technologies is a plus.
• Knowledge of AI and machine learning concepts is a plus.

We offer a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and a collaborative work environment. If you are passionate about AI & how teams collaborate, and want to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment, then we want to hear from you.

About Tweeny:
We are a team of passionate software Ninjas who design scalable software solutions.

We solve some of the interesting problems for our clients in a variety of sectors. We are also developing our own products where we are seeking bright minds with creative thinking.
We are a fast-paced and young team of fun-loving engineers. For us, work is not just a job but it's a way to grow & learn together while doing what we love.

We are looking to hire on MERN stack position (full stack engineering profile) although if you have worked only on either ReactJS/Native or NodeJS stack, please do apply as well.

We are hiring for a few specific teams at our organization that is building utility and functional web application experiences (as marketplace applications) that solving some interesting problems for remote workforce management.

Requirements:

• 2-5 years of experience working with React JS, Node JS, and other advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Strong software engineering skills with the proven ability to build, deploy, and maintain a scalable codebase.
• Experience working with remote data using RESTful APIs and JSON.
• Strong understanding of development tools and technologies like ES6, Redux, Immutable, JSX Components, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, Git, NPM, Express.
• Strong understanding of any build tool like Webpack, Babel, Gulp, or similar.
• Strong affinity for benchmarking and performance optimization.
• Experience deploying applications to the cloud and setting up CI/CD is a plus.
• Experience building container images using tools like Docker is a plus.
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies.
• B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications
• Integrate software components and third-party programs
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Recommend and execute improvements for the software development and software delivery life cycle
• Ensure the highest standard of performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.

React Native Developer 

Responsibilities:

• Development and Integration of user-facing design elements with server-side logic.
• Design and develop backend API services and databases to serve frontend applications.
• Code for multi-platform environments.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Proficient in Angular JS or ReactJS, Node.js and JavaScript.
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes.
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes in one or more database technologies such as Mongo, MySQL etc.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Proficient knowledge of a back-end programming language. (Depending on the specific case, a developer should have the knowledge of one or more of Python, Ruby, JavaScript etc.)
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

Academic Qualifications:

• Engineering degree from a reputed institute

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!