Frontend Engineer

Overview About Presight
Presight, an ADX-listed public company limited by shares whose majority shareholder is Abu Dhabi company G42, is the region’s leading big data analytics company powered by Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). It combines big data, analytics, and AI expertise to serve every sector, of every scale, to create business and positive societal impact. With its world-class computer vision, AI and omni-analytics platform as its engine, Presight leverages all-source data to support insight-driven decision making that shapes policy and creates safer, healthier, happier, and more sustainable societies.

The Opportunity
Looking for a seasoned and creative Frontend Engineer to design & build front end applications by implementing visual elements in web applications and translating UI/UX design wireframes into programming language to deliver innovative frontend engineering solutions that are stable, high-performing, secure, accessible, and measurably profitable for Presight’s customers.

Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:

• Provide expertise in the advanced knowledge of applications programming
• Ensure that application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint
• Design fully responsive applications by writing clean, tested, modular and well-documented code
• Develop optimal solutions to enhance user experience, optimizing maximum speed, scalability and technical feasibility
• Document software deliverables through use cases, design documents and technical specifications
• Understand libraries, patterns and platforms required to implement web applications in a lucid, structured, and scalable manner
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging and implementation
• Partner with multiple teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements
• Participate in design and architecture reviews and offer inputs for improvements
• Understand complex business requirements and provide innovative & apt technical solutions
• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop creative, profitable solutions
• Comply with QHSE (Quality Health Safety and Environment), Business Continuity, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, Compliance Management and Governance of Organizations policies, procedures, plans and related risk assessments

Qualifications
Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field
• Minimum 6 years of experience in front end web development
• At least 3 years of experience in building robust web applications in AI service organization or analytics industry
• Strong computer science and basic algorithms knowledge
• 3+ years of experience coding in Vanilla Javascript
• Knowledge of web fundamentals: HTML5/CSS3, protocols, modern web standards
• Expert knowledge of modern JavaScript and TypeScript
• Experience building single page applications with React, or any other component-based framework
• Strong understanding of state management in front end apps, production experience working with MobX or Redux
• Experience in media operations in browser (Canvas, Audio and Video APIs)
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, MongoDB, etc)
• Strong knowledge about programming principles (SOLID)
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs design
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

NOTE: This is a 12 months contractual role

Ideally, you’ll also need:

• Experience with popular UI component libraries, ideally Ant Design
• Experience with WebGL/Web Assembly
• Experience with DevOps tasks like CI/CD
• Experience in cloud infrastructure and reliability engineering
• A passion for the latest developments in front end programming
• In-depth market and domain knowledge
• A curious, creative and inventive bent of mind
• Excellent communication and presentation skills