Employment:
Full Time
The role of Lead Developer at Augustus Media is to manage the freelance development team and oversee the company products making sure they’re always fully functional and meet internal/external expectations.
JOB TITLE: Lead Developer – Full Stack
REPORT TO: Senior Product Manager
KEY SKILLS REQUIRED :
– Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
– Proven 5+ years experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
– Proven experience as a team lead
– Strong organisational and project management skills
– Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
– Proficiency with server side languages such as Python, Java, PHP, Apache, Nginx and .Net and their frameworks
– Experience with AWS instances, database and cloud storage (EC2, Lightsail, RDS, EBS, S3)
– Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB and caching mechanisms such as Redis, Memcached and Varnish
– Excellent knowledge of WordPress
– Knowledge and experience in mobile app development is a plus (Flutter, Swift, Kotlin)
– Excellent verbal communication skills
– Excellent problem solving skills
– Attention to detail
RESPONSIBILITIES:
– Developing front end website architecture
– Designing user interactions on web pages
– Developing back end website applications
– Creating servers and databases for functionality
– Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones
– Ensuring responsiveness of applications
– Working alongside graphic designers for web design features
– Seeing through a project from conception to finished product
– Designing and developing APIs
– Manage development and deployment of mobile applications
– Write technical documentation
– Create security and data protection settings
– Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
– Meeting both technical and consumer needs
– Work with development teams and product managers to ideate web & software solutions
– Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages
PEOPLE:
– Assist in fostering a high performance led culture
– Bring along a positive, collaborative, ready to learn attitude at all times
– Develop SMART performance objectives alongside your line manager
– Promoting Augustus as a great place to work, ensuring positivity is championed and your team feels prepared to live out the 3 core values
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
– Build on your emotional intelligence and self-awareness
– Grow your presence in the industry, including relationships within agency partners and industry bodies to support professional stature
– Complete mandatory training
An enthusiastic, ambitious person looking for a career in the media industry.
We are hiring a full stack developer, the role will be to manage and maintain all of our websites’ front and back end. Candidates should have a qualification in computer science, or computer engineering with an interest in mobile app development preferably.
The role is Lead Developer to oversee the tech and make sure the company brands are always well maintained, optimized, updated and secure.
The tech stack for all our brands requires a deep knowledge and understanding of: php, html, javascript, video.js, css, google analytics, google tag manager, WordPress, 3rd party payment gateways, JSON & mobile APIs. Knowledge of AWS instances is a plus.
We are looking for someone who is well experienced, assumes ownership of company projects and is proactive in their approach and plans
ABOUT AUGUSTUS
The consumption of media is ever present, yet the mediums and the means are ever evolving. We are a ‘New Media’ company, born in one of the most dynamic and vibrant cities in the Middle East. Our vision is to establish and maintain a ‘New Order’ of media advertising with data and content at the heart of everything we do.
Augustus is a Middle Eastern digital media company based in Dubai and Riyadh and has been designed to adapt and evolve to this perpetually changing media environment. Our mission is to be the ‘New Media’ company of choice in the Middle East by generating profitable growth through innovation and breaking the mold in marketing communications.
Values
We understand that achieving our mission is based upon strong values and we have identified
three that sit right at our core.
• Ingenuity: There is a bit of genius in everything we do. We take pride in our creative originality.
• Tenacity: Good things come to those who work for them. We always persevere and persist.
• Velocity: High level performance is about speed and momentum. We are fast and agile in how
we think, operate and how we act
About Augustus
We are a ‘New Media’ company, born in one of the most dynamic and vibrant cities in the Middle East. Our mission is to be the ‘New Media’ company of choice in the Middle East by generating profitable growth through innovation and breaking the mold in marketing communications.
Augustus established in 2015 with offices in Dubai & Riyadh, recognised as SME company of the year at the 2018 MENA Effies. Current portfolio of brands includes Lovin Dubai, Lovin Saudi & SMASHI TV.
Values
We understand that achieving our mission is based upon strong values and we have identified three that sit right at our core.
- Ingenuity: There is a bit of genius in everything we do. We take pride in our creative originality.
- Tenacity: Good things come to those who work for them. We always persevere and persist.
- Velocity: High level performance is about speed and momentum. We are fast and agile in how we think, operate and how we act.
Source: Job Posting - gulftalent.com
