Lead Software Engineer – Nodejs Developer
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About the job
- Add the Middle East to your global professional experience and have the opportunity to work on some of the leading Digital Transformation programs. Virtusa is one of the fastest growing IT Services companies in the Middle East with a growing client base in the UAE, KSA, Qatar & Oman. We work with the leading Banking and Financial Services, Travel, Telecom, and Enterprises firms in the region. We have partnered with our clients to win awards from Gartner, IDC, WfMC, and other analysts for the work that we have delivered to our clients in the region.
- Why would you not like to be part of this exciting and award-winning team? Don’t listen to us, listen to our customers. Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 30,000+ people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities, and work with state-of-the-art technologies throughout your career with us.
Role: Lead Software Engineer
Skill: Nodejs, Typescript, Microservices, Banking (Crypto payments)
Description:
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years of coding and automation testing experience in JavaScript technologies.
- At least 1 year hands-on experience in TypeScript.
- Experience in Automation Testing Techniques and Tools e.g., Playwright/Cucumber/Appium/Selenium
Technical Skills:
- Excellent knowledge in developing and testing scalable and highly available Restful APIs/Microservices using JavaScript technologies.
- Able to create end-to-end Automation test suites using Playwright/Selenium, preferably using BDD approach.
- Practical experience with GraphQL.
- Well-versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem.
- Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes.
- Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale.
- Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token-based authentication (Rest, JWT, OAuth).
- Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues including but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin, and Kafka.
Functional Skills:
- Experience in following best Coding, Testing, Security, Unit testing, and Documentation standards and practices.
- Experience in Agile methodology.
- Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best-in-class technologies.
Qualifications:
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Commitments:
Career growth and learning:
Elevating Careers through an Engineering-Centric Focus at Virtusa. Our Engineering First philosophy is fundamental to enhancing our employees' skills and advancing their careers.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion:
At Virtusa, we are committed to fostering diversity and inclusion within our organization. Our efforts have resulted in a residency program where 40% of our engineers are women.
Social impact:
At Virtusa, we are dedicated to upholding business principles and fair operating practices. This includes maintaining the highest standards of integrity and corporate governance for operational excellence.
Work-life balance:
At Virtusa, we embrace an engineering-first approach and believe in fostering a flexible work environment, providing excellent benefits, and offering extensive learning and development opportunities.
Environmental sustainability:
We aim to reduce our environmental footprint, be ethically mature, and respect all. We believe in doing more and better with less, effectively reducing the environmental footprint of the products and services we offer to clients. We are committed to supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals through our ESG program in the short and long terms.
