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.

Originally posted on Himalayas