Frontend Developer (React.js) - Egypt

Role Summary

We are looking for a skilled and motivated *Frontend Developer* with strong experience in *React.js* and modern frontend development practices. The ideal candidate should be comfortable building scalable, responsive, and high-performance web applications and integrating them with *RESTful APIs and microservices-based backends*.

You will work closely with backend engineers, product managers, designers, and QA engineers to develop modern, maintainable, and user-friendly applications.

They should be comfortable with concepts such as

• Component-driven architecture
• Feature-based folder structure
• Reusable UI components
• Separation of concerns
• State management
• API/service abstraction layers
• Error and loading-state management
• Authentication/authorization
• Performance optimization
• Lazy loading and code splitting
• Environment-based configuration
• Scalable frontend project structure

Example Technology Stack

*Frontend*

• React.js
• TypeScript
• Redux Toolkit
• React Query / TanStack Query
• HTML5
• CSS3
• Tailwind CSS / Material UI

Backend Integration

• REST APIs
• Microservices
• JSON
• OAuth/JWT-based authentication

Development

• Git
• GitHub/GitLab
• Vite / Webpack
• Docker
• CI/CD

Testing

• Jest / Vitest
• React Testing Library
• Cypress / Playwright

Soft Skills

Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

Good communication and collaboration skills.

Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Strong attention to detail.

Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Willingness to learn new technologies and modern development practices.

Comfortable working in a fast-paced product development environment.

Requirements

• Develop and maintain modern web applications using *React.js*.
• Build reusable, scalable, and maintainable UI components.
• Integrate frontend applications with *REST APIs and microservices*.
• Work with backend teams to understand API contracts, authentication, error handling, and service integrations.
• Implement application state management using *Redux / Redux Toolkit* or other appropriate state-management solutions.
• Develop responsive and mobile-friendly interfaces across different devices and screen sizes.
• Follow modern frontend architecture and development best practices.
• Optimize application performance, page load time, rendering performance, and bundle size.
• Implement proper loading, error, empty, and success states across the application.
• Handle authentication and authorization flows, including token-based authentication.
• Work with asynchronous API calls and efficiently manage server-side data.
• Write clean, reusable, modular, and well-documented code.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to frontend coding standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve frontend bugs and production issues.
• Collaborate with QA engineers to ensure high-quality and reliable releases.
• Work with Git-based development workflows and participate in pull-request/code-review processes.
• Contribute to improving the overall frontend architecture as the product evolves.
• Required Technical Skills

React.js

Strong hands-on experience with *React.js*.

• Strong understanding of:
• Functional Components
• React Hooks
• Component lifecycle
• Props and state
• Context API
• Custom Hooks
• Reusable component design

Experience building large-scale React applications.

State Management

• Strong experience with *Redux / Redux Toolkit*.
• Understanding of global vs local state management.
• Experience handling asynchronous state and API data.
• Familiarity with alternatives such as *React Query / TanStack Query* is a plus.
• Modern Frontend Development
• Strong knowledge of *JavaScript (ES6+)*.
• Good understanding of *TypeScript*.
• Experience with modern CSS and responsive design.
• Experience with component-based UI development.
• Understanding of frontend architecture and design patterns.
• Experience with modern build tools such as *Vite, Webpack, or similar*.
• Understanding of code splitting, lazy loading, caching, and frontend performance optimization.

Microservices & API Integration

• Experience integrating React applications with *microservices-based backend systems*.
• Strong understanding of *REST APIs* and JSON.
• Understanding of:
• API authentication
• Authorization
• HTTP methods and status codes
• API error handling
• Pagination
• Filtering and sorting
• File uploads

Webhooks/events from a frontend perspective

• Ability to work with multiple backend services/APIs within a single frontend application.
• Understanding of service boundaries and how frontend applications interact with distributed backend systems.

HTML / CSS

• Strong knowledge of *HTML5, CSS3, and responsive design*.
• Experience with modern CSS frameworks such as *Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, or Material UI*.
• Ability to convert UI/UX designs into clean and responsive frontend implementations.
• Good understanding of accessibility and cross-browser compatibility.

Git & Development Practices

Strong experience with *Git and GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket*.

• Experience with:
• Feature branches
• Pull requests
• Code reviews
• Merge conflicts
• Release workflows

Understanding of CI/CD workflows is a plus.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with *Next.js*.
• Experience with *TypeScript* in production applications.
• Experience with *React Query / TanStack Query*.
• Experience with *WebSockets or real-time applications*.
• Experience with *Micro Frontends* is a strong plus.
• Experience with *Storybook*.
• Experience writing frontend unit/integration tests using *Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, or Cypress/Playwright*.
• Understanding of Docker and containerized applications.
• Experience working with cloud environments such as AWS.
• Understanding of application observability and frontend monitoring.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.

Frontend Architecture Expectations

• The candidate should have an understanding of how to build frontend applications that can scale as the product grows.
• We are looking for someone who is not only capable of writing React components but can *think beyond individual screens and build scalable frontend systems*.
• The ideal candidate should understand *how a modern frontend communicates with distributed backend services, manages application state, handles failures, performs efficiently, and remains maintainable as the application grows.*