Senior Software Engineer
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About the Role
Vast Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain web and mobile applications using React, Laravel, and related technologies. The role involves building scalable APIs, mentoring junior developers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain web and mobile applications using React, Laravel, and related technologies
- Build scalable, secure, and high performance frontend, backend, and API driven solutions
- Design and develop RESTful APIs and backend services
- Conduct code reviews, provide technical guidance, and mentor junior and mid level developers
- Optimize application performance, scalability, reliability, and security
- Collaborate with cross functional teams including product, design, QA, and mobile development
- Support application releases, monitoring, troubleshooting, and issue resolution
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation processes
- Assist in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting AWS hosted environments
Requirements
- Strong experience with React.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, Laravel, MySQL, and REST API design
- Working knowledge of AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch)
- Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows
- Understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and coding best practices
- Ability to mentor and support team members
- Experience with Docker and containerization concepts
- Knowledge of Linux server administration fundamentals
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Job Overview
- Senior Software Engineer position at Vast Group in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Full time employment
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain web and mobile applications using React, Laravel, and related technologies
- Build scalable, secure, and high performance frontend, backend, and API driven solutions
- Design and develop RESTful APIs and backend services that support both web and mobile platforms
- Ensure seamless integration between mobile applications, web applications, and backend systems
- Participate in application architecture, technical planning, and design decisions
- Write clean, maintainable, well documented, and testable code following industry best practices
- Conduct code reviews, provide technical guidance, and mentor junior and mid level developers
- Optimize application performance, scalability, reliability, and security across web and mobile platforms
- Collaborate with cross functional teams including product, design, QA, and mobile development
- Support application releases, monitoring, troubleshooting, and issue resolution
- Identify and resolve complex technical challenges while maintaining high system availability
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and engineering best practices
Cloud & DevOps Collaboration
- Work closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to support application deployments
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation processes
- Assist in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting AWS hosted environments
- Monitor application performance, logs, and infrastructure metrics to ensure reliability
- Support infrastructure scalability, availability, and disaster recovery initiatives
- Contribute to continuous improvement of deployment, monitoring, and operational processes
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience with React.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, Laravel Framework, MySQL, REST API design, Git
- Working knowledge of AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch)
- Linux server administration fundamentals
- Docker and containerization concepts
- Application monitoring and logging tools
- Security best practices for cloud hosted applications
- Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform or CloudFormation is a plus)
Key Competencies
- Strong understanding of AWS cloud services, cloud native architectures, and application hosting
- Experience with Redis, caching strategies, queues, and performance optimization
- Understanding of microservices, service oriented architectures, and event driven systems
- Experience with automated testing, code quality practices, and software reliability
- Ability to mentor and support team members through knowledge sharing and code reviews
- Strong analytical, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a collaborative team
- Strong team player mindset with ability to work closely with developers, QA, DevOps, designers, and product stakeholders
- Ability to balance software development priorities with operational, performance, and security considerations
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
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