Senior Developer

Role Summary

The Senior Developer will be responsible for managing both front-end and back-end development processes implementing solutions from conception to final product according to business needs. The senior developer is required to implement and oversee the design, develop and maintenance of fully-fledged and functioning platforms

Key Responsibilities

• Work within a Software Development team, following Agile development methodologies.

• Work with Project management and solution architects to estimate and scope out projects.

• Work with Creative team during planning, discovery, and production phase.

• Work with both front-end and back-end development teams to create and optimize solutions.

• Optimizing code for performance.

• Comment code and produce documentation to industry standards as needed.

• Produce code to the highest standards while adhering to industry accepted architecture and design pattern techniques and methodologies (e.g., MVC, SOA, OOP, DI etc.)

• Defining and developing API's.

• Contribute to the analysis and design of software products and tools.

• Evaluate and advise on the technical feasibility.

• Create quality prototypes for a clearer understanding of UI designs.

• Test and confirm software is fit for purpose with intended audiences.

• Recommend and implement refinements and improvements.

• Follow formal Software Engineering best-practices.

• Mentoring and guiding team members

• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs

• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience

Experience

• At least 6+ years of experience in building Applications

• At least 4+ years of experience with React, TypeScript

• Good understanding of OOPs concepts.

• Strong hands-on knowledge on HTML5, CSS3, ES6+

• Strong understanding of the React Virtual DOM, JSX and API

• Hands on experience on REST APIs, GraphQL and WebSocket

• Experience with a State-management framework like Redux (with middleware) or MobX

• Understanding of cloud-based technologies, Azure, SQL and relational databases, SOAP and REST Web-Services, JSON, XML, MSAL.

• Comfortable with concepts like Container/Presentation components, Higher Order Components

• Worked with UI libraries like Material-UI, Semantic UI, Bootstrap or similar

• Good understanding of CSS in JS, aka scoped-css or Styled Components

• Unit testing with Karma + Mocha or Jest

• Experience on working with frontend build systems and automating the same using Grunt / Gulp

• Experience on MVC frameworks (Backbone.js, or similar) and knowledge of common JavaScript design patterns will be good to have

• Experience of working with server-side JavaScript frameworks based on Node.js

• Exposure to Style Guides, Atomic Design

• Exposure to Scrum and Agile methodologies.