Fullstack Developer

Add the Middle East to your global professional experience and have the opportunity to work on some of the leading Digital Transformation programs.

Virtusa is one of the fastest growing IT Services companies in the Middle East with a growing client base in the UAE, KSA, Qatar & Oman and we work with the leading Banking and Financial Services, Travel, Telecom and Enterprises firms in the region. We have partnered with our clients to win awards from Gartner, IDC, WfMC and other analyst for the work that we have delivered to our clients in the region.

Why would you not like to be part of this exciting and award winning team? Don’t listen to us, listen to our customers

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 30,000+ people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.

Role: Lead Software Engineer

Description:

• Minimum 5 years of coding experience in ReactJS (TypeScript), HTML, CSS-Pre-processors, or CSS-in-JS in creating Enterprise Applications with high performance for Responsive Web Applications.

• Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using React concepts. (self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components)

• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts

• Knowledge of Data Structures for TypeScript.

• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.

• Banking or Retail domains knowledge is good to have.

• Hands on experience in performance tuning, debugging, monitoring.

Technical Skills

• Excellent knowledge developing scalable and highly available Restful APIs using NodeJS technologies

• Well versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem

• Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes.

• Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale.

• Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token-based authentication (Rest, JWT, OAuth)

• Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues include but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin and Kafka.

• Practical experience with GraphQL is good to have.

• Experiencing in Developing responsive web-based UI

• Have experience on Styled Components, Tailwind CSS, Material UI and other CSS-in-JS techniques

• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system

• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed

• Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions

• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux or ContextAPI or Data Structures)

• A knack for benchmarking and optimization

• Knowledge of React and common tools used in the wider React ecosystem, such as npm, yarn etc

• Familiarity with common programming tools such as RESTful APIs, TypeScript, version control software, and remote deployment tools, CI/CD tools

• An understanding of common programming paradigms and fundamental React principles, such as React components, hooks, and the React lifecycle

• Unit testing using Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine or equivalent framework