Senior Frontend Engineer

  • Wahed Inc.
  • 12/06/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications Java

Job Description

Job Brief

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our Core development team. As a team member, you will play a role in building, maintaining, designing, and implementing new and current features primarily on the Wahed Platform, a React Native app. Building product and innovative features is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required. We are looking for candidates that are self-motivated and eager to learn new technologies, work well both within a team and on their own, and have an attention to detail.

Job Description
  • Development of the React Native architecture including creating and maintaining core mobile components.
  • Work with other senior engineers to drive and deliver on our product roadmap, turning rough specs into features.
  • Provide leadership and mentorship to other frontend and mobile engineers on the team.
  • Find elegant solutions to usability problems. Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across all our frontend platforms.
  • Engineer new features that can work seamlessly across all of maintained web and mobile applications.
  • Leverage APIs for integrations with other platforms.
Job Specification
  • At least 2 years of recent experience working with React Native.
  • At least 7 years of commercial experience with JavaScript and TypeScript and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax, React, React Native and GraphQL.
  • Product minded: committed to building the best user experience.
  • Understand the trade offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism.
  • Eager and open to learning.
  • General understanding of Swift, Objective-C and Java.
  • Experience with AWS.
  • Experience with Server-side JS e.g. Node JS.
  • Familiar with event-based and microservices architectures.
  • Understanding the standards and rules regulated by the Apple Developer/Connect system.
  • Have an app hosted publicly in the Google or Apple app store(s).