Software Engineer - React Front End

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain mobile banking applications using React Native.
• Develop responsive web applications and customer-facing digital journeys using React.js.
• Collaborate with product owners, UX/UI designers, architects, and backend teams.
• Integrate applications with APIs, microservices, OAuth/OIDC authentication, and enterprise middleware.
• Ensure compliance with banking security standards, secure coding, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.
• Optimize performance, scalability, responsiveness, and user experience across mobile and web channels.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, code reviews, testing, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices for automated build, test, and deployment.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong experience in React Native, React.js, JavaScript ES6+, and TypeScript.
• Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, Redux, Context API, React Hooks, and responsive web design.
• Experience integrating REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and JWT authentication.
• Knowledge of mobile application lifecycle management for iOS and Android platforms.
• Experience with state management, component libraries, performance tuning, and mobile optimization.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery, Git, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices.

Required Experience and Knowledge

• At least 5 years of front-end engineering experience, including at least 3 years in React Native development.
• Banking, financial services, digital channels, internet banking, mobile banking, or fintech experience is required.
• Experience delivering customer-facing applications with high availability, security, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Knowledge of API-driven architecture, microservices, secure authentication, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience working in large-scale Agile and DevOps environments.
• Knowledge of mobile security, certificate pinning, OWASP Mobile Top 10, and secure SDLC practices.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Flutter, Kotlin, Swift, or native mobile development is advantageous.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, or containerized deployments is advantageous.
• Experience with banking onboarding, payments, lending, trade finance, corporate banking, or treasury solutions is advantageous.
• Understanding of performance testing, observability, monitoring, and analytics tools is advantageous.
• Arabic is preferred.

Key Deliverables

• Deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing mobile and web banking applications.
• Develop reusable front-end components and implement a design system.
• Successfully integrate enterprise APIs, microservices, and authentication platforms.
• Meet quality, security, performance, and accessibility standards.
• Provide production-ready releases with documentation, test coverage, and operational support readiness.

Certifications

• React Developer Certification is preferred.
• Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or AWS Cloud Practitioner is preferred.
• Certified Scrum Developer or another Agile certification is preferred.
• Mobile Application Security Certification is advantageous.

Preferred Tech Stack and Tools

• Preferred technologies include React Native, React.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Redux, and GraphQL.
• Listed tools and platforms include JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, Firebase, Figma, Jenkins, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, and Kubernetes/OpenShift.