Staff Frontend Engineer

About almentor: Founded 2016 with a singular vision of empowering lifelong learning and personal growth for all, through accessible and impactful education, almentor become the leading online learning platform that offers a high-quality education to learners around the world.

Our Mission: 🚀 almentor is on a mission to increase accessibility to affordable quality education for Arabic-speaking communities.

Job Brief

Reporting to Engineering Manager, your role is to build, design and deliver innovative and scalable business products features, platform systems and experiences.

Our business product is suite of learning experiences tailored to thousands of employees in SMEs and large organizations, our products play an key role in employees career development and advancement.

We are committed to building software that is not only functional and reliable, but also beautiful and intuitive. Our engineers and designers work together to create products that are a joy to use, and that solve real-world problems in innovative ways. We believe in the Agile and XP methodologies, and we prioritize collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement in everything we do.

We are embarking on an exciting journey of rebuilding our product and engineering organization to drive innovation and growth. Our goal is to create a world-class platform that delivers the best possible learning experiences to our users.

Share the journey along with engineers, product managers and leaders from the most successful organizations in the region.

Role Objectives

• Design, and build systems that powers our payment, billing and revenue management across consumer and business customer segments.
• Play key role in hiring, promote our quality culture and coach other engineers
• Continuously improve DORA metrics for systems owned by your team(s).
• Continuously invest in improving our business reliability metrics.
• Collaborate with product and business partners to evolve our software systems, products, and services to better serve our customers.

The ideal candidate is someone with:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably within Extreme Programming environment (TDD, Pair Programming, Simple Design, and Continuous Refactoring)
• Good understanding of lean/agile values & principles and associated practices
• Proficiency in testing with focus on automated end to end quality
• Experience in designing and building features in modular architecture with end-to-end ownership and understanding.