Frontend Engineer

Recruiter:

Talented Recruitment

Job Ref:

DBN001785/TK

Date posted:

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Location:

Durban, South Africa

JOB SUMMARY:
We are looking for a talented Frontend Engineer who, along with a globally focussed agile software development team, will be responsible for developing the Connected Store Platform. You will help extend some of the core systems and spearhead new initiatives.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Responsibilities:

In collaboration with the Product Owner, Product Director and stakeholders, understand the needs of the business in order to deliver innovative, robust solutions.
Development of user facing front-end solutions within an agile environment.
Build reusable code and libraries for future use
Polish frontend behaviour to ensure a great user experience.
Monitoring of application performance and implementation of measures to ensure systems perform at suitable levels.
Planning and design: Systematically think through and identify a solution, then outline the necessary steps to develop a fully deployable feature set.
Technology evaluation and research: Research and evaluation of new technologies and proposed ways of improving existing systems.
Technical delivery: Timely and reliable deployments of new features and maintenance fixes.
Quality and continuous improvements: Continuous measurement of quality of code and features and proactive identification of areas for improvement.
Testing: Implement necessary code testing and do the necessary technical testing before handing features over for QA testing.

Requirements:

BSc Computer Science or equivalent is encouraged (strong work experience can substitute)
Minimum 2 years of experience with JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 and related technologies
Demonstrable track record of implementing responsive web UI, catering for desktops & mobile devices.
Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
Experience working in an agile team managed by Scrum.
Creative problem-solving skills.
Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
Strong interpersonal and team-building skills.
Capacity and inclination to learn and you must be passionate about building scalable system

Technical/Functional Skills:

Proficient understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing frameworks, such as LESS and SASS
Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, ES6 including DOM manipulation
jQuery, HTML5, CSS3
Good understanding of modern front-end frameworks – e.g Angular 5+
REST APIs

Advantageous

UI Unit Testing experience
Cloud platform experience such as MS Azure

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