Role Summary
The Senior Developer will be responsible for managing both front-end and back-end development processes, implementing solutions from conception to final product according to business needs. The senior developer is required to implement and oversee the design, development, and maintenance of fully-fledged and functioning platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Work within a Software Development team, following Agile development methodologies.
- Work with Project management and solution architects to estimate and scope out projects.
- Work with the Creative team during planning, discovery, and production phase.
- Work with both front-end and back-end development teams to create and optimize solutions.
- Optimizing code for performance.
- Comment code and produce documentation to industry standards as needed.
- Produce code to the highest standards while adhering to industry accepted architecture and design pattern techniques and methodologies (e.g., MVC, SOA, OOP, DI etc.).
- Defining and developing APIs.
- Contribute to the analysis and design of software products and tools.
- Evaluate and advise on the technical feasibility.
- Create quality prototypes for a clearer understanding of UI designs.
- Test and confirm software is fit for purpose with intended audiences.
- Recommend and implement refinements and improvements.
- Follow formal Software Engineering best-practices.
- Mentoring and guiding team members.
- Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs.
- Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- At least 6+ years of experience in building applications.
- At least 4+ years of experience with React and TypeScript.
- Good understanding of OOP concepts.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, ES6+.
- Strong understanding of the React Virtual DOM, JSX, and API.
- Hands-on experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, and WebSocket.
- Experience with state management frameworks like Redux (with middleware) or MobX.
- Understanding of cloud-based technologies, Azure, SQL and relational databases, SOAP and REST Web-Services, JSON, XML, MSAL.
- Comfortable with concepts like Container/Presentation components, Higher Order Components.
- Worked with UI libraries like Material-UI, Semantic UI, Bootstrap, or similar.
- Good understanding of CSS in JS, aka scoped-css or Styled Components.
- Unit testing with Karma + Mocha or Jest.
- Experience working with frontend build systems and automating using Grunt / Gulp.
- Experience on MVC frameworks (Backbone.js or similar) and common JavaScript design patterns.
- Experience working with server-side JavaScript frameworks based on Node.js.
- Exposure to Style Guides, Atomic Design.
- Exposure to Scrum and Agile methodologies.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online via Abacus Careers Page.
