Front End Engineer - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Silkhaus

    Silkhaus
    Silkhaus Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    2 weeks ago

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    Description

    Who are we

    Silkhaus is a Dubai-headquartered end-to-end technology platform that powers short-term rentals (STRs) for guests, real estate owners, and operators. We have an all-star founding team and leading investors (Nordstar Ventures, Nuwa Capital, Global Founders Capital, VentureSouq, Yuj Ventures, and several high-impact family offices and entrepreneurs), with experience in hyper-scaling proptechs and emerging markets technology businesses. In addition to running the largest portfolio of short-term rentals across emerging markets, we are building the global technology stack for STRs operators and real estate owners to run cutting-edge short-term rental businesses.

    What is the role

    We are seeking a talented Front End Engineer with a Full- Stack acumen to join our growing tech team. Join our dynamic tech team if you're interested in starting something from scratch and laying the groundwork for design and architecture that will have an impact on travellers and property owners all over the world. This position will work cross-functionally with product, design, and other counterparts to execute the product roadmap and build novel products and features that our guests and property owners will love.

    What do you bring to the table

    • You have 3-5 years of software development experience in modern front-end development tools and frameworks like ReactJs, NextJs.
    • Extensive experience working with at least one modern object-oriented programming language such as Go, Java, C++, and Kotlin.
    • Experience working with relational and nonrelational databases
    • Experience designing and building large-scale, distributed applications, including making tradeoffs in architecture and functionality in a cloud environment.
    • Experience with Cloud hosted infrastructure and Technologies; AWS preferred;
    • Ownership spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
    • You can contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You can review code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
    • You want to contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
    • Cultural intelligence: Silkhaus is a global company. We're based in Dubai, expanding across the GCC region and soon South East Asia. Our sights are set all over the world with a diverse employee roster to match.

    Who You Might Be:

    • 3-5 years of software development experience in modern front-end development tools and frameworks like React/Angular.JS.
    • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field
    • Experienced with software fundamentals, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus.
    • Expertise in modern front-end technologies such as React, Vue, or Angular.
    • Ownership spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
    • Good understanding of Authorization, Logging, Software Test methodologies and Unit testing.
    • Solid understanding of Deployment CI/CD Jenkins, Basic knowledge on Docker and Linux environment

    What you'll get

    • Competitive compensation package
    • Health insurance plan from a leading provider
    • Flexible working hours & locations: ideally, you're based in Dubai (where you can work from our beautiful office or coworking space) and have the option to work from home for 1 day/week.
    • Remote working is also possible for this role
    • Generous annual leave policy