Senior Frontend Engineer
Bayut | dubizzle, United Arab Emirates

We’re looking for a Senior developer to become a part of a platform that handles millions of requests per day. Continuous integration, auto-scaled rolling releases, event-driven micro-service architectures and single-page, server-side rendered apps are all part of the daily gig.

Do you value openness, transparency and empowerment? dubizzle "Squads" are high performing x-functional teams set with a mission to provide win-win exchanges for our beloved users. Bayut amp; dubizzle have now joined forces to acquire the region's largest Unicorn status !

• Our engineers build and maintain robust APIs - from the service that powers them right down to the line of code that perfects them;
• They ensure all our services are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale;
• You'll work closely with other teams from the early stages of design all the way through identifying and resolving production issues;
• You will support a wide range of products focusing on automation, availability and performance, and above all reliability as well as supporting mobile engineers and business intelligence leading up to, during and after each sprint;
• You will live true to our ambitions of building an industry-leading platform which is relentlessly focussed on innovation;
• Develop elegant solutions for complex problems;
• Write and maintain exemplary code following dubizzle’s programming practices;
• Gain a detailed understanding of the complete architecture of our product and the position of your product stream in it;
• Work in a mentoring capacity within a peer-programming environment and provide guidance on tasks, irrespective of complexity or scale;
• Handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end;
• Write clean, tested, modular amp; well-documented code;
• Work in a mentoring capacity within a peer-programming environment and provide guidance on tasks, irrespective of complexity or scale;
  

Requirements

• Bsc in Computer Science or a related field;
• 8+ years of experience as a software developer;
• Excellent understanding of HTML, CSS amp; JavaScript;
• In-depth working experience with one of the MVC frameworks (Vue, Angular or React);
• Fair understand of state management within Javascript, experience with Redux is preferred;
• Understanding of build tools like Gulp or Webpack;
• Good knowledge of Node.js;
• Experience in building Mobile-first, Single-page, Server-side rendered and Responsive web apps;
• Fair knowledge of preprocessors such as Sass (preferably), Stylus or LESS;
• Fair understanding of BEM, OOCSS or SMACSS methodologies;
• Understanding of package management tools like bower amp; NPM;
• Fair understanding of AMD, UMD amp; Common JS patterns;
• Experience with testing and developing across multiple browsers while maintaining a consistent experience;
• Understanding of client-side performance issues;
• Good eye for design and UX;
• Good understanding of version control systems (git);
• Understands how to use command line;
• JavaScript testing experience is a must;
• Experience with backend technologies is a plus;
• Working knowledge of deploying frontend applications to AWS is a plus;
• Experience with internationalisation and working on websites with multiple languages is a plus.

Benefits

• A fast paced, high performing team.
• Multicultural environment with over 25 different nationalities
• Competitive Tax-free Salary
• Comprehensive Health insurance
• Annual Air Ticket Allowance
• Employee discounts at multiple vendors across the emirates
• Rewards amp; Recognitions
• Learning amp; Development

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