Hybrid Senior Front End Developer

at Octal Technical Solutions

• Job title: Senior Front End Developer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Angular, AWS, Bootstrap, Docker, Entity Framework, GraphQL, Java, JavaScript, Jest, Kafka, Kubernetes, Next.js, NoSQL, Prometheus, RabbitMQ, React, Redux, Splunk, SQL, Terraform, TypeScript, Vue.js, WordPress, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Makati City, Philippines

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer delivering high-quality software solutions while supporting existing systems. Actively participate in the recruitment of developers and support ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Frontend Developer) to join our team and deliver high-quality software solutions while supporting existing systems.
• The ideal candidate should promote a best-in-class experience for our users and participate in the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of software applications.
• The candidate must ensure the punctual delivery of projects to produce high-quality software, following industry best practices.
• They should show a commitment to ongoing professional development and stay current with the latest technological advancements.
• Additionally, they are expected to actively participate in the recruitment of developers and contribute to the continuous improvement of the recruitment process.
• Develop services and products that consistently provide high-volume, low-latency, high- availability, optimal performance, reliability, and security in implementations.
• Identify key details and focus on delivering incrementally. Support the design, implementation, and testing of new features. Engage actively in requirements refinement discussions.
• Review the technical specifications and architecture diagrams prepared by the Architect/Principal.
• Support change management, capacity planning, and emergency response as an expert in the runtime environment and business logic behaviour.
• Guide and supervise junior developers to understand the architecture and technical specifications.
• Participate in pair programming on complex tasks to reduce risk and facilitate knowledge exchange.
• Develop code in accordance with industry standards and company best practices.
• Ensure comprehensive automated testing coverage.
• Generate unit tests during the development process to enhance code quality.
• Conduct peer code reviews, including group open reviews.
• Assist in developing and maintaining the team’s CI/CD pipeline.
• Take part in and take ownership of deployment, monitoring, and alerting requirements for the team’s product.
• Engage in product support activities, debugging, and the resolution of issues.
• Engage actively in all agile ceremonies, including sprint refinement, planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
• Share and implement ideas to advance the progress of our teams rapidly.
• Prepare thorough technical documentation.
• Translate technical and non-technical requirements for appropriate audiences.
• Recommend improvements and propose innovative ideas and solutions.
• Design and build APIs for both internal and external usage.
• Design and develop components using Golang, Java, and C# while collaborating closely with our backend platforms.
• Write technical documentation specific to BE (API documentation, data dictionary, etc).
• Design and build scalable, modular components in ReactJS + Next.js (SSR/CSR), working closely with our frontend platforms.
• Implement and manage Redux for stage management.
• Develop reusable UI with TailwindCSS and ShadCN for consistency and accessibility.
• Integrate real-time feature using WebSockets for live updates and notifications.
• Build interactive data visualizations with Chart.js (via react-chart.js-2).
• Implement robust form handling with React-Hook-Form, including validation and complex form states.
• Maintain and extend WordPress sites.
• Write technical documentation specific to FE.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or a related technical discipline.
• Secondary School / High School Diploma Graduate of a technical-related course or discipline.
• 5-7 years’ of professional experience building web applications with React, Angular and Next.js.
• 5-7 years of B2B SaaS enterprise applications with a large user base.
• 5-7 years of mobile and/or desktop application development.
• 5-7 years of Automation testing generating Unit, BDD (Behaviour-driven development) and/or
• TDD (Test-driven development). Preferred.
• Production experience with Redux for state management.
• Production experience with WordPress, including custom plugin development and third-party form integrations (Gravity Forms, Pardot).
• Production experience implementing SSO authentication flows (e.g., JumpCloud, token-based auth).
• Production experience building real-time frontend features (e.g., WebSockets).
• Production experience with micro-frontend principles is a plus.
• Production experience with TypeScript, Jest, and ESLint.
• 5-7 years Java, Golang, C#, AWS.
• 5-7 years of SAAS development experience.
• 5-7 years of micro-service backend architecture.
• 5+ years of professional experience building web applications with React and Next.js.
• Strong hands-on experience with Redux for state management.
• Experience with Angular (supporting and enhancing existing apps).
• Experience with WordPress, including custom plugin development and third-party form integrations (Gravity Forms, Pardot).
• Experience implementing SSO authentication flows (e.g., JumpCloud, token-basedauth).
• Experience building real-time frontend features (e.g., WebSockets).
• Experience with micro-frontend principles is a plus.
• Deep knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, modern JavaScript (ES6+).
• Expertise in React + Next.js for SSR/CSR apps.
• Strong skills with TailwindCSS and component libraries like ShadCN.
• Familiarity with React-Hook-Form, and PptxGenJS.
• Strong understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in frontend performance and rendering.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.
• Collaborative attitude, team player, friendly, passionate, and flexible to learn new tools and skillsets.
• Production experience building and shipping customer-facing applications with thousands of users.
• Strong sense of ownership and focus on long-term usability and extensibility.
• Strong experience solving complex problems.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies.
• Professional level communication skills with/ the ability to convey ideas to a broad audience of different specialisations.
• Ability to work toward goals, meet deadlines, and contribute positively to the team environment.
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office products.
• Production AWS hands-on experience.
• Production experience with software engineering architecture, component design, coding,
• unit testing, documenting, and deploying.
• Production experience working with CI/CD environments is required.
• Experience working with pub/sub/messaging systems (SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, ActiveMQ...)
• Experience working with Serverless Architecture
• Experience in DevOps activities (AWS, k8s, Terraform, Docker...)
• Experience in automated software testing through unit/functional/ integration test suites.
• Production experience with TypeScript, Jest, and ESLint.
• Experience with monitoring & logging technologies (Splunk, Wazuh, New Relic, Prometheus, Opentelemetry, Jaeger,...)
• Experience with SQL, Entity Framework, and/or NOSQL solutions, GraphQL.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and CSS frameworks (such as Bootstrap and Tailwind).
• Production experience with Angular, React, Vue, TypeScript and other similar Frontend frameworks.
• Context API, React Query, AWS Signature

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package