Senior Fullstack (React JS & Node JS) Engineer

GSSTech Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Dubai is looking for a skilled Senior Full Stack Engineer to design and develop enterprise-grade web applications. The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience in ReactJS (TypeScript) and NodeJS, focusing on responsive design and performance tuning. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is crucial to deliver innovative digital solutions in banking or retail domains. Join us to advance cutting-edge technology in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Over 6 years of experience in building enterprise-grade web applications.
• Strong proficiency in ReactJS, NodeJS, and scalable API development.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to deliver cutting-edge digital solutions.
• Develop and implement responsive user interface components.
• Architect and automate production build processes.

Skills

ReactJS (TypeScript)

NodeJS

Scalable API Development

Performance Optimization

Responsive Design

NoSQL Databases

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

GraphQL

Unit Testing (Jest, Enzyme)

Agile Methodology

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

CI/CD Tools

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Full Stack Engineer with over 6 years of hands‑on expertise in designing and developing enterprise‑grade web applications. The ideal candidate will have strong proficiency in ReactJS (TypeScript), NodeJS, and scalable API development, with a focus on performance, security, and responsive design. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to build, optimise, and deliver cutting‑edge solutions for large‑scale digital platforms in the banking or retail domain.

Education

• Degree, Post graduate in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent industry experience)

Experience

• Minimum 6 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.
• Minimum 6 years of coding experience in NodeJS, JavaScript & TypeScript and NoSQL Databases.
• 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.
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• 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
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• 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
• Proficient with the latest versions of ECMAScript (JavaScript or TypeScript)
• 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
• Understanding of linter libraries (TSLINT, Prettier etc)

Functional Skills

• Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices
• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.
• Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.

Soft Skills

• Able to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and effectiveness, by sharing deep knowledge and experience.
• Self‑motivator and self‑starter, Ability to own and drive things without supervision and works collaboratively with the teams across the organization.