Senior Web Developer

Job description / Role

We are looking for Senior Web Developer for a leading Commerce company in Dubai.

This is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurial individuals that are eager to succeed and develop their careers in a fast growing company!

- Must have deep expertise in various web and mobile web applications development using PHP Wii framework, HTML5, JQuery, CSS3, XML, MYSQL 5, and AJAX.
- Develops and documents technical solutions in response to requests to enhance and optimize company’s ecommerce websites
- Participates in and leads coding of solutions
- Assists with quality assurance activities, including unit testing, system testing, and solution validation
- Performs daily builds and the promotion of code to the development environment for subsequent testing
- Provides leadership to entire development team
- Ensures best practices are established and followed
- Assists less-experienced developers with technical challenges through mentoring and professional development
- Assists the group’s Solution Architect with conceptualization and execution of high level technical plans
- Consults with business groups to clarify requirements and solution feasibility, and to provide technical solutions
- Participates on project teams led by project managers
- Participates in solution discussions to expand knowledge of systems and processes
- Participates in administrative process discussions designed to maximize team productivity
- Assists with technical support and triage of issues as needed

Competencies
- Innovative: displays original thinking and creativity; meets challenges with resourcefulness; presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others’ attention
- Initiative: undertakes self-development activities; takes independent actions and calculated risks; looks for and takes advantage of opportunities; asks for and offers help when needed
- Dependability: follows instructions, responds to direction; takes responsibilities for own actions; keeps commitments; completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate personal with an alternate plan; arrives at meetings and appointments on time

Requirements

- BA Degree in Computer Sciences, programming or a related discipline or demonstrable equivalent experience
- Must have a proven track record of developing and supporting mission-critical, high-volume web applications
- Must possess a strong understanding of the software development life cycle and related processes
- Must possess expert-level proficiency with regard to web development technologies including client-side and server-side JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, AJAX, JSON, XML, XPath, XSD Schemas, XSLT Transformations
- Must possess expert-level proficiency designing, developing, and calling web services and other forms of remote API calls
- Must be able to understand and optimize performance drivers of pages, and entire website
- Must possess expert-level proficiency in effectively troubleshooting high-volume online systems while minimizing impact to the customer experience
- Must possess expert-level understanding of key technologies including web servers, relational databases, scheduled batch jobs, data transformation, import, and export
- Must be able to effectively manage time across multiple projects and priorities
- Must possess demonstrable experience in advanced troubleshooting techniques
- Must possess good organization and time management skills
- Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able and willing to effectively communicate with all users having little or no technical knowledge
- Must possess excellent customer service skills with a high level of initiative

About the Company

Since 2010, our team has successfully placed some of the world’s finest graduate to mid and C-level talent in organisations across EMEA and APAC, and it all comes down to our niche approach and understanding of the market place, skill sets and trends.

From our offices in Dubai, Riyadh, London and Singapore, we run a sector specific operation. Meaning we specialise in your industry and are able to completely understand your vision, provide market insights and intelligence, and deliver the best talent to fit seamlessly into your operations.