Software Engineer

Role Summary:

We are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join Hala’s engineering team, with a strong focus on React on the front end and .NET / C# on the back end. The ideal candidate should be confident building modern, scalable, and maintainable web applications using React, TypeScript, and .NET APIs. This role will involve developing user-facing features, building reusable components, integrating with backend services, contributing to API development, and working closely with Product, Design, QA, and other Engineering teams. The candidate should be product-minded, quality-focused, and comfortable working in a fast-paced fintech environment where reliability, performance, security, and clean engineering practices are important.

Requirements:

• Build and maintain modern web applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• Develop reusable, scalable, and maintainable React components.

• Work with state management and data-fetching patterns using tools such as Redux, React Query, Zustand, Context API, or similar.

• Integrate front-end applications with RESTful APIs and backend services.

• Build, maintain, and enhance backend services using .NET / C#.

• Design and implement APIs using ASP.NET Core.

• Work with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or MySQL.

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, QA, Backend Engineers, Frontend Engineers, and other stakeholders.

• Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture decisions.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production and non-production issues across front-end and backend layers.

• Ensure high standards of performance, security, reliability, accessibility, and maintainability.

• Write clean, testable, and well-structured code.

• Follow engineering best practices around Git, pull requests, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and documentation.

• Support continuous improvement of engineering standards, processes, and delivery quality.

Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with React and modern front-end development.

• Strong knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and responsive UI development.

• Good experience building applications with ASP.NET Core / .NET.

• Strong knowledge of C# and object-oriented programming.

• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs.

• Good understanding of front-end architecture, component design, hooks, forms, routing, validation, and API integration.

• Experience with databases and SQL fundamentals.

• Familiarity with Entity Framework Core, Dapper, or similar ORM/data access patterns is a plus.

• Experience with unit testing and integration testing on both front-end and backend is preferred.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment practices is a plus.

• Good understanding of web performance, browser behavior, authentication, authorization, and security best practices.

• Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mindset, and attention to detail.

• Good communication skills and ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Previous experience in fintech, banking, payments, wallets, cards, or financial platforms is a strong plus.