Full Stack Developer

Full Stack Developer will work in an agile team environment with responsibility of design, development and integration of applications and services on both back-end and front-end sides. The candidate is expected to be a driving force in setting the pace and commitment level for the team and to contribute suggestions for, and to actively support, Sky News Arabia’s development practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Management of complete development process from conception to deployment.
• Build of REST / GraphQL API and integrate with Front End UI
• Maintenance, troubleshooting debugging and upgrading of existing software products.
• Develop and test across multiple browsers, platforms and devices, including smartphones.
• Deliver clean, secure, highly maintainable and scalable code.
• Collaboration with team members and product manager in business and technical discussions to adopt best practices and help identify optimal technical solutions.
• Work with client services, sales, and the design team, and manage time across multiple projects and tasks in a deadline-driven, team environment.
• Writing technical documentations.

Key Skills, Experience and Education:

• BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field.
• Minimum of 5-year experience in software development.
• Proficient understanding of HTML5, CSS3.
• Proficient experience in responsive web development.
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting using javascript and TypeScript.
• Proficient understanding of integration with back end services using REST API, GraphQL (AJAX, JSON, XML).
• Proficient understanding of CSS pre-processing platforms such as LESS and SASS.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of HTTP/HTTPS protocol.
• Proficient understanding and hands on Experience using ReactJS.
• Good Understanding of Search Engine Optimizations (SEO) principals.
• Experience in developing unit test cases using (Mocha, Jasmine, Jest, Chai).
• Experience in developing automated functional test cases using selenium or cypress.
• Experience working with web servers (Apache, Nginx).
• Proficient understanding of server-side technologies.
• Proficient experience developing micro services, REST / GraphQL API.
• Experience working with RDBMS (MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres) and NoSQL DB (MongoDB).
• Proficient understanding modern architectures like JAM Stack, MEAN Stack and MERN Stack.
• Good Knowledge on Cloud Native patterns (preferably AWS), serverless, microservices architecture and containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficient experience in development using NodeJS ecosystem.
• Experience using Git version and Git Flow.
• Experience using NPM or Yarn.
• Experience with CI/CD build/deployments.
• Experience working in Agile environment specifically SCRUM.

Optional Skills:

• Experience in development using Java, Python or Ruby.
• Experience in development using PHP.
• Experience in development using Java EE.
• Experience in development using Spring Boot.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud serverless architecture and Lambda functions.
• Mobile applications development.
• Experience in NextJS or Gatsby.
• Cross-Platform mobile applications development using Flutter or ReactNative.
• Experience in developing for (WordPress, Drupal, Strapi).
• Tizen and Web OS development.
• Knowledge of VOD and Live Streaming protocols (HLS, DASH).