About the program
HCLTech Middle East is Calling All Tech Trailblazers!
Are you an expert in Node.js, NodeJS + Playwright, ReactJS, Angular & Fullstack (React + Node.js + MongoDB) ?
This is your moment to shine!
HCLTech Middle East invites talented developers like you to collaborate on building cutting-edge solutions in a real-world, real-time environment.
You’ll be supporting one of the leading banking and financial services organizations in the UAE, contributing to innovation that shapes the future of finance.
At HCLTech, we offer you a launchpad to:
- Apply your tech skills to solve real industry challenges
- Collaborate with pioneers across business and technology
- Gain exposure to transformational projects and innovation labs
- Network with industry leaders and digital champions
- Get your work noticed—with potential for incubation
- Employment offer from HCLTech Middle East
- Opportunity to work with top-tier banks in the UAE
- Mentorship by seasoned industry veterans
- Real impact with Fortune 500 clients
- Best-in-class compensation package
Rewards
Winner
*1st Prize: AED 10,000
1st Runner Up
*2nd Prize: AED 5,000
2nd Runner Up
*AED 1000 to Top 28
Certification
*Participation Certification
*Conditions apply
*Participation certificate to all the attendee and consideration in HCLTech onsite job opportunity
Hack2Hire 2.0
You will face a set of real-time business challenges. A fresh perspective on what needs to be fixed, improved and/or removed from a critical business complication will separate the winners from the rest of the participants.
You will be divided into teams and get building as fast and furiously as possible! It’s a RACE.
Date: June 28, 2025
Time: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM (GST)
Location: Mercure Dubai Barsha Heights Hotel
Important point: You must carry your own laptops to the venue for participation.
Are You Eligible? Check the Skills Below!
Pre-requisites for applying
- Should be above 5+ years of experience
- Should be good in English communication
- Should have worked in modern technologies and DevOps
- Should have worked on agile ways of working
- Should have passion and energy to challenge each other and learn from each other
- Should have team dynamics
- Should have experience in Banking domain and Financial products
Open Job Profiles - Description
Technical Skills
- Excellent knowledge developing scalable and highly-available Restful APIs using NodeJS technologies
- Practical experience with GraphQL.
- Well versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem
- Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers , Kubernetes.
- Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale.
- Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token based authentication (Rest, JWT, oAuth)
- Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues include but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin and Kafka
Testing Skills
- Excellent knowledge in development and testing scalable and highly available Restful APIs / Microservices using Javascript technologies
- Able to create end to end Automation test suites using Playwright / Selenium preferably using BDD approach.
- Practical experience with GraphQL.
- Well versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem
- Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers , Kubernetes.
- Exposed to API gateway izntegrations like 3Scale.
- Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token based authentication (Rest, JWT, oAuth)
- Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues including but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin and Kafka
Technical Skills
- Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Develop responsive web-based UI
- Have experience on Styled Components and other CSS-in-JS techniques
- Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
- Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
- Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions
- Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
- Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux or ContextAPI or Data Structures)
- A knack for benchmarking and optimization
- Proficient with the latest versions of ECMAScript (JavaScript or TypeScript)
- Knowledge of React and common tools used in the wider React ecosystem, such as npm, yarn etc
- Familiarity with common programming tools such as RESTful APIs, TypeScript, version control software, and remote deployment tools, CI/CD tools
- An understanding of common programming paradigms and fundamental React principles, such as React components, hooks, and the React lifecycle
- Unit testing using Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine or equivalent framework
- Understanding of linter libraries (TSLINT, Prettier etc)
Technical Skills
- Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Ability to Coordinate the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and self
- Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects and keeping the framerate above 30fps at all times
- Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
- Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
- Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions
- Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around $resource
- Knowledge on Nodejs, Java Script, Angular material and Bootstrap
- Knowledge on external libraries like devolte, store management
Technical Skills
- Excellent knowledge developing scalable and highly available Restful APIs using NodeJS technologies
- Well versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem
- Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes.
- Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale.
- Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token-based authentication (Rest, JWT, OAuth)
- Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues include but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin and Kafka.
- Practical experience with GraphQL is good to have.
- Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Experiencing in Developing responsive web-based UI
- Have experience on Styled Components, Tailwind CSS, Material UI and other CSS-in-JS techniques
- Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
- Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
- Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions
- Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
- Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux or ContextAPI or Data Structures)
- A knack for benchmarking and optimization
- Proficient with the latest versions of ECMAScript (JavaScript or TypeScript)
- Knowledge of React and common tools used in the wider React ecosystem, such as npm, yarn etc
- Familiarity with common programming tools such as RESTful APIs, TypeScript, version control software, and remote deployment tools, CI/CD tools
- An understanding of common programming paradigms and fundamental React principles, such as React components, hooks, and the React lifecycle
- Unit testing using Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine or equivalent framework
- Understanding of linter libraries (TSLINT, Prettier etc)
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This event will be held in-person in Dubai. All participants are required to attend physically at the designated venue. Virtual or remote participation will not be available.
About HCLTech
HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 219,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending September 2024 totaled $13.7 billion. To learn how we can supercharge progress for you, visit hcltech.com.