Frontend Engineer: AI-Powered Real-Time UI

Lucidya | لوسيديا; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lucidya in Saudi Arabia is hiring a Frontend Software Engineer with 0-2 years of experience to build high-quality user experiences using React, TypeScript, and modern frontend practices. You will own features from design to production, collaborate with backend, QA, product, and design, and apply AI-assisted workflows to improve speed while maintaining quality.

We value ownership, speed, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related field.
• 0-2 years of professional frontend development experience.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience building applications with React.
• Good understanding of TypeScript and type-safe development.
• Good understanding of React fundamentals, including components, hooks, state management, rendering, and component lifecycle.
• Experience integrating frontend applications with APIs and handling asynchronous data.
• Familiarity with React Query / TanStack Query and Redux / Redux Toolkit.
• Understanding of frontend testing and experience with tools such as Jest and Playwright.
• Familiarity with real-time frontend architectures using WebSockets / Socket.IO.
• Understanding of RabbitMQ and event-driven systems.
• Understanding of real-time challenges such as reconnection, duplicate events, stale data, race conditions, and keeping UI state synchronized.
• Solid HTML, CSS, responsive design, and browser fundamentals.
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Ability to debug problems and write maintainable code.
• Experience using AI tools to improve productivity.
• Strong willingness to learn and improve.
• Good communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production-grade web applications using React, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Develop reusable, maintainable, and scalable frontend components.
• Turn product requirements into clean, intuitive user experiences.
• Integrate frontend with REST APIs and real-time services.
• Work with WebSockets / Socket.IO for real-time UI.
• Understand and work with event-driven flows connected to RabbitMQ.
• Handle real-time updates and synchronization between live events and UI state.
• Manage server state with React Query / TanStack Query.
• Manage client-side state with Redux / Redux Toolkit when appropriate.
• Contribute to frontend architecture, performance, and maintainability.
• Write reliable unit and integration tests with Jest.
• Build and maintain end-to-end tests with Playwright.
• Participate in code reviews and learn from feedback.
• Debug issues and focus on root causes.
• Write clean, readable code.

Skills

JavaScript fundamentals

React

TypeScript

React Query

Redux Toolkit

Jest

Playwright

WebSockets

Socket.IO

RabbitMQ

REST APIs

Git

AI-assisted development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Playwright

Jest

Job description

Lucidya in Saudi Arabia is hiring a Frontend Software Engineer with 0-2 years of experience to build high-quality user experiences using React, TypeScript, and modern frontend practices. You will own features from design to production, collaborate with backend, QA, product, and design, and apply AI-assisted workflows to improve speed while maintaining quality.

We value ownership, speed, collaboration, and continuous improvement.