We're looking for an experienced and enthusiastic React.js or Angular.js Front-end Engineer to join one of our teams, and be part of building high impact innovative products and experiences. We value curiosity, and a passion for learning, and growing together.
Core Skills & Competencies
3+ years of work experience developing in ReactJS/Redux/Angular
Automated continuous integration and delivery
Experience in responsive and mobile UI development
Experience in a11y standards and implementation
Experience with PWA development, Service Worker, and offline first development principals
Experience with REST, JSON, GRAPHQL
Design System frameworks such as Material UI
Preferred Skills:
Quick to take on the business landscape and system logic
Self-motivated for learning, adaptation, and technological education
Strong skills to mentor other engineers on the team and assist in troubleshooting
Responsibilities
Design and Develop innovative web applications as part of agile front end or multi-disciplinary team
Develop reusable components
Estimate and scoping development tasks and making recommendations for innovations and improvements relating to software component designs. Includes reviewing the work of team members and completing elements of design
Acquire knowledge of industry and company standards, tools and technology with a focus on pragmatic application to business-focused software solutions through initiative and self-study
Collaborate with back end developers to integrate UI with dynamic data
Work closely with QA to deliver quality code in an agile environment
Improve tooling or automated processes to streamline UI development
Fix bugs or other anomalies discovered in UI code
Create and maintain documentation of UI code or technical topics/processes
Take initiative to improve upon coding standards, clarify requirements, and seek opportunities for growth
Requirements for Application
Code or a portfolio worth sharing, that will help us validate your skills and experience
Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience
Contactable references
At least 1 of the following: Github profile or similar, StackOverflow profile, HackerRank etc.
Relevant Degree would be advantageous.
Bonus Points for
Being a polyglot developer
Contributing to open source
Sharing your side project(s)
Sharing your blog, or other developer community involvement
Who You Are
Unafraid to make decisions and take the initiative
Willing to learn and try new things
Keen communication skills (both written and verbal)
Have a keen understanding of user experience and how every layer of a system contributes to it.
Have the self discipline and organisational skills to work effectively as part of a remote team
Benefits:
Sponsored and incentivised Learning, Personal and Professional Development
Work Remotely full time, flexible hours
Work in small product-focused and highly autonomous team agile team environment
Competitive Market-Related Salary,
Comprehensive Discovery Medical Aid, Vitality and Gap Cover for SA based full-time team members
Who We Are:
We're a small distributed Product development team of teams, looking to grow. steadily and intentionally. We're engineers and designers first, we put our heart into our work, and make no apologies for it. We're driven to win, to innovate, to "raise the bar" and have one hell of a time doing it.
We're on a mission to be a world-class team, what does that mean?
Consistently investing in people
Focused on team and process improvement
Tight feedback cycles internally and with customers
Quality engineering and design first, always.
Data-driven team-based decision making
Transparency, internally and externally.
Autonomy, Accountability, and Ownership.
A culture of experimentation, testing & knowing over guessing.
The Work
Our customers are ambitious, they dream big, and have high hopes and expectations for the work we do, on their software that either is already operating at scale or well on it's way to being used by millions of people. They value us as a partner and our commitment to quality above all else. We don't just write code, we help shape the product vision, the technologies, and instill the values of agility, high-quality product development and delivery.
We consult for leading brands, and innovative startups across multiple industries, in SA, Europe, and the USA. We're focused on small, regular delivery iterations with long-lasting engagements, and have one or more teams dedicated to a client engagement.
If you're interested in joining a dynamic, creative and fast-evolving team, want to explore new technologies, and build high impact products, we would love to hear from you.
Notes on our Hiring Process
We don't want to waste your time or ours, please read the above carefully.
We follow a four-step process, after completing the pre-screening, we'll have an initial brief phone or video call, a review of your work or evidence of your technical capabilities, and lastly a team interview before going into contract negotiation.
If you cannot satisfy the minimum requirements for application above, please prepare a motivation as to why we should consider your application.
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