Senior Frontend Engineer

Wahed; Sharjah; On-site; AED 279,000 - 468,720; Full time

Job summary

Wahed is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our Core development team. You will contribute to the Wahed Platform, a React Native app, building and maintaining features with a focus on quality and performance.

You will mentor other frontend engineers, work with APIs, and help create a seamless user experience across web and mobile. Experience with React Native, JavaScript/TypeScript, and GraphQL is valued.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of recent experience with React Native.
• At least 7 years of commercial experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React ecosystem.
• Product-minded with focus on user experience.
• Ability to balance pragmatism with quality solutions.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop the React Native architecture including core mobile components.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to deliver features per roadmap.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to frontend/mobile engineers.
• Build pixel-perfect, smooth UIs across frontend platforms.
• Engineer cross-platform features for web and mobile applications.
• Integrate with APIs for platform partnerships.

Skills

Product minded

Mentorship

Team player

Self-motivated

Eager to learn

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

React Native

JavaScript

TypeScript

GraphQL

AWS

Node.js

Swift

Objective-C

Java

Job description

About Wahed

The global financial system wasnt built for everyone. For millions of people its reliance on interest (riba) creates a barrier to managing money and building wealth without compromising their values. At Wahed were changing that. We are a global fintech company on a mission to build a new financial systemone that is ethical accessible and entirely interest-free. From our offices across the globe our team is building products that were once deemed impossible from pioneering Shariah-compliant equity ETFs creating true riba-free alternatives to high yield savings accounts to creating no-leverage real estate investments for truly interest-free income producing assets. If youre driven to solve complex problems and believe finance should empower not exclude join us in building a more equitable financial future.

Job Brief

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our Core development team. As a team member you will play a role in building maintaining designing and implementing new and current features primarily on the Wahed Platform a React Native app. Building product and innovative features is a highly collaborative effort and as such a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required. We are looking for candidates that are self-motivated and eager to learn new technologies work well both within a team and on their own and have an attention to detail.

Job Description

• Development of the React Native architecture including creating and maintaining core mobile components.
• Work with other senior engineers to drive and deliver on our product roadmap turning rough specs into features.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to other frontend and mobile engineers on the team.
• Find elegant solutions to usability problems. Build pixel-perfect buttery smooth UIs across both all our frontend platforms.
• Engineer new features that can work seamlessly across all of maintained web and mobile applications.
• Leverage APIs for integrations with other platforms.

Job Specification

• At least 2 years of recent experience working with React Native.
• At least 7 years of commercial experience with JavaScript and TypeScript and its nuances including ES6 syntax React React Native and GraphQL.
• Product minded: committed to building the best user experience.
• Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem valuing pragmatism over idealism.
• Eager and open to learning.
• General understanding of Swift Objective-C and Java.
• Experience with AWS.
• Experience with Server-side JS e.g. Node JS.
• Familiar with event-based and microservices architectures.
• Understanding the standards and rules regulated by the Apple Developer/Connect system.
• Have an app hosted publicly in the Google or Apple app store(s).

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience

Senior IC