Senior Frontend Dev. Engineer (Mashreq Digital Bank Pakistan)

Job Purpose:

To deliver and maintain IT-applications and –services to realize the Mashreq strategy in the field of information technology. Engineers in this job category work in an agile way, in squads to deliver short-cycle full-fledged IT products.

• Develops conceptual models for problem areas and applies these effectively

• Delivers a structural contribution to coding (application, scripts) in the deployment pipeline

• Is mentor for novices

• Has a lot of engineering knowledge and skills, based on many years of experience

• Is looking actively for coaching by proficient and expert engineers

• Follows advanced training and is certified in several fields of engineering

• Shows mastery of all engineering skills (ATDD, analysis, design, test scripting, coding, peer reviewing, etc.)

The Sr. Dev Engineer (FE) is responsible for transforming the design and the product vision into working products and will directly influence how users will interact with the system. The Front-End developer works hard to stay on top of fast changing technology and invests a lot of energy in learning new tricks. They are not only caught up on industry trends in client development frameworks but also know what the near future will bring. A love for clean interfaces and a passion for great user experiences goes without saying.

Key Result Areas:

•Uses his/her technical expertise and experience to contribute to all sprint events (planning, refinements, retrospectives, demos)

• Consults with the team about what is needed to fulfil the functional and non-functional requirements of the IT product to be developed

Develops the IT product, performs the unit test in line with the customer’s wishes and IT area’s internal ambitions and reviews colleagues’ IT products.

• Designs, builds and tests IT products (functional, performance, resilience and security tests) and automates them.

• Performs Life Cycle Management (including decommissioning) for IT products under management

• Improves the Continuous Delivery process

• Resolves incidents and problems relating to IT products under management (including stack)

• Sets up the IT environment, deploys the IT product on the IT infrastructure and implements the required changes

• Sets up monitoring of IT product usage by the customer

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

•Experience building modern JavaScript-based web applications

• Excellent knowledge of React and React Native

• Expert experience with HTML, CSS/LESS/SCSS/etc., JavaScript, and responsive design

• Mobile development experience with either native or web-to-native tooling and frameworks

• Experience using JavaScript frameworks and libraries specifically React

• Understanding of RESTful APIs and how use them in practice

• Knowledge of Object-Oriented programing

• Ability to write effective unit, integration, and end-user automation tests

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies

• Experience as a Developer on a cross-functional agile team preferred

• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align organization on decisions

• Sound problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply

• Utilizes team collaboration to create innovative solutions efficiently

• Passionate about technology and excited about the impact of emerging / disruptive technologies

• Wants to unleash inner self-starter and work in an environment that fosters entrepreneurial minds

• Believes in culture of transparency and trust

Open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge skillset