Junior Full Stack Developer [L1]

Alef Education; Abu Dhabi; Sur place; AED 60 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Annual performance bonus

Health insurance

Enhanced leave policy

Résumé du poste

Alef Education is seeking a Junior Full Stack Developer to join a multidisciplinary team in Abu Dhabi. You will help build rapid prototypes and production-ready code, collaborating with designers and researchers while adhering to Clean Code, TDD/BDD, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

The role emphasizes modern frameworks, RESTful APIs, and scalable backend systems. You will contribute across backend and frontend layers, engage with product managers to define features, and ensure code quality with

Qualifications

• Collaborate with designers and researchers to build rapid prototypes and production-ready code.
• Write clear, maintainable backend and server-side web applications.
• Create and maintain microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Style and optimize frontend components; ensure accessibility and responsive design.

Responsabilités

• Collaborate with designers and researchers to build prototypes and production-ready code.
• Plan sprints, assess assets and costs, and coordinate prerequisites from customer requirements.
• Design framework engineering and select technology stack for the project.
• Construct product and write unit tests; improve collaboration between systems and customers.

Connaissances

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Unit testing

Git

Linux/macOS

English fluency

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Outils

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ

Mockito

Spock

Jasmine

IntelliJ

Eclipse

Maven

Gradle

SBT

Oracle

MS SQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Selenium

JMeter

Gatling

Description du poste

Employee

Job Description

Who we are

Founded in 2016, Alef Education (ALEFEDT on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange) is an award-winning AI powered learning solutions provider redefining K to 12 education. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the company serves approximately 2.0 million students and 84,000 educators across 19,000 schools in the UAE, Indonesia, and Morocco.

Its flagship Alef Platform delivers personalized learning experiences that enhance student engagement and outcomes, while its supplemental solutions Alef Pathways, Abjadiyat, and Arabits extend learning across subjects and languages.

Through its innovative use of artificial intelligence, data insights, and culturally relevant content, Alef Education is transforming teaching and learning to advance equity, access, and excellence for every student.

About The Role As a Junior Full Stack Developer you will collaborate with designers and researchers to build both rapid prototypes and production-ready, accessible code. Strong technical leadership and adherence to modern practices such as Clean Code, TDD/BDD, CI/CD, and DevOps are essential, along with proficiency in current frameworks and languages.

• Conceptualizing the framework to be manufactured, making succinct prerequisites from customer meeting or market examination.
• Planning the conveyances, sprints, emphases, and assessing the assets required and the cost, organizing errands as indicated by prerequisites.
• Designing framework engineering.

Creating application and space models:

• Planning and normalizing the database.
• Advancing plan by applying configuration designs.
• Picking innovation stack for building the arrangement.
• Making application and space models.

Collaboration amongst framework and clients:

• Constructing the product and composing unit tests assuming any. And designing and enhancing collaborations amongst framework and clients.

Create/writer clean code:

• A full stack engineer should be gifted at all layers of innovation stack - it might be a front-end outline and conduct, middleware, backend, database questions and so on.
• Creating robotized or manual test suits to thoroughly test for bugs.

Working with internal teams

• Liaise with developers, designers and product managers to identify new features
• Proactively advise on the best practices during feature-conceptualization
• Tailor the requirements to customize features that leverage native Android resources and patterns
• Proactively advise on best practices
• Assist in the budgeting process

To Be The Right Fit, You'll Need

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred
• At least 1 year of relevant experience
• Write efficient, readable, and maintainable code
• Build and maintain microservices and RESTful APIs
• Experience with messaging systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ)
• Use mocking frameworks (e.g., Mockito, Spock, Jasmine)
• Proficient with IDEs like IntelliJ or Eclipse
• Familiar with build tools such as Maven, Gradle, or SBT
• Work with SQL databases (Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
• Develop scalable and robust backend systems
• Experience building server-side web applications
• Hands-on with testing tools (e.g., Selenium, JMeter, Gatling)
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable working with Linux/macOS environments
• Proficient in Git version control
• Quick learner of new tools and technologies
• Understanding of responsive web design principles
• Knowledge of web accessibility standards and inclusive design
• Fluency in English

What we offer

We believe our people are our greatest advantage. We value curiosity, purpose, and the drive to make a real difference. When you join Alef, you join a mission — and a team that’s just as passionate about transforming education as you are.

Here’s a glimpse of what we offer:

• Annual performance bonus
• Health insurance
• Enhanced leave policy

At Alef, we don’t just imagine a better future for education.

We build it — together.

Job Snapshot

Updated Date

10-11-2026

Job ID

AlefJob_414

Department

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