Job Description

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.

• Design

• 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.

• 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).