Virtasant is a leading cloud consulting services provider. We heavily focus on lift & shift, cloud-native development, cloud cost optimization, and migration services. As a consulting company, we are often faced with the challenge to create an engineering team in a matter of a week or two. To do that, we have created a secondary support business that runs an engineering talent network and provides staffing services.
Our client is an international media company, and they are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help power their large-scale, modern web platform. This is a hands-on role building SPAs and services with React, Node.js, and GraphQL, owning features end-to-end across a substantial multi-repo codebase. You’ll contribute clean, well-tested code, improve performance, and collaborate closely with internal teams and vendors.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain web applications using React, Node.js, GraphQL and WordPress
- Work both independently and collaboratively to identify requirements, specify designs, and deliver on a regular cadence.
- Communicate effectively across internal and vendor teams to identify and resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
- Review and improve source code written by developers to meet the project coding standards
- Participate in both development of new features and supporting already existing media products.
- Fluent in English.
- 5+ years professional software engineering; strong SPA experience.
- Advanced JavaScript and TypeScript with modern ES6+ patterns; React expertise (3+ years). (TypeScript is expected across the codebase.)
- HTML and CSS/Sass excellence; familiarity with modern styling approaches.
- Proficiency with Node.js and GraphQL in production systems.
- Solid unit testing discipline; comfort with front-end testing (e.g., React Testing Library and Jest) and isolating components effectively.
- Strong Git workflows and code review practices.
- Demonstrable understanding of SOLID principles and common design patterns; writes clean, maintainable code.
Preferred Skills
- Next.js experience; ability to pick up new Next apps quickly.
- Experience with CI/CD, Docker, and Agile rituals.
- Cloud familiarity (GCP preferred, Azure/AWS transferable; conceptual understanding is key).
- Exposure to WordPress/PHP in a headless or integration context.
Our recruitment process
- Recruiter Screen
- Technical Interview
- Client Interview I
- Client Interview II
We strive to move efficiently from step to step so that the recruitment process can be as fast as possible.
What We Offer
- Totally remote, full time (40h/week)
- Flexible work hours
- Contractor agreement
- Payment in USD, by-weekly or monthly - your choice
- Availability: 4 hours overlapping with Doha, Qatar.
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