Senior Front-End Software Engineer

TECHNOLOGY STACK

• Frontend (Customer) - React, using redux and redux-toolkit for state management.
• Frontend (Admin) - React, using redux sagas for state management.
• Frontend (Marketing) - React, using gatsbyjs for static site-building.
• Backend (Dashboard/Admin/ DMZ Layers) - .Net Core 2.2
• Backend Microservice (Services running through Kubernetes and docker management)
• Azure DevOps (Source control)
• CI / CD
• Pipeline management
• Azure cloud services
• Bugsnag (Front-End Real-time issue monitoring)
• Graylog (Back-End Real-time issue monitoring)
• Postman / Swagger (API Documentation)

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Help create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture
• Take accountability for team targets
• Assist to hire junior and mid-level developers
• Encourage creativity and intelligent risk-taking
• Develop new user-facing features
• Build clean, semantic and maintainable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimise application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Analyze system requirements and prioritize tasks
• Develop technical specifications and architecture
• Test and debug various Front-End applications
• Review and refactor code
• Deploy fully functional applications
• Upgrade existing programs
• Support junior developers’ work
• Document development and operational procedures

REQUIREMENTS

General

• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Proficient understanding of server-side css pre-processing frameworks, such as LESS and SASS.
• Proficient understanding of utility based css frameworks, such as TailwindCSS.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, ES6 including DOM manipulation.
• Good understanding of modern frameworks - ReactJS, KnockoutJS, AngularJS
• Proficient understanding of version control tools. (Git, Mercurial, SVN)
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring the application will adhere to them
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Experience integrating with RESTful API’s
• Experience working with common front-end tools such as Babel, Webpack and NPM.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience as a Front-End Software Developer,
• Prior experience in a technical position,
• College or University degree in Computer Science, a related discipline or proven experience in software development.

Core Competency Requirements

• Proficient with React development
• Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment environments. GIT, Azure Pipelines.
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with agile and scrum development methodologies.
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimisation
• Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes
• Forensic attention to detail

Preferred Competency Requirements

• Experience in various frontend architecture patterns
• Experience in implementing service workers
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Experience building PWA (Progressive web applications)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React

NICE TO HAVES

• Have a decent amount of financial/investment knowledge and associated database/process design
• Show interest in fintech, cryptocurrencies, blockchain and broader financial industries
• A British or EU passport in addition to a South African passport

SKILLS, COMPETENCIES AND INTERESTS REQUIRED FOR THIS ROLE

• Flexible/ adaptable. You adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions. You cope effectively with complexity and change. Able to work in a fast-paced environment with a focus on continuous improvement.
• You plan, organize, schedule, and budget in an efficient, productive manner. You focus on key priorities.
• A team player. You reach out to peers and cooperate with executives to establish an overall collaborative working relationship.
• Follow-through on commitments. You live up to verbal and written agreements, regardless of personal cost. You are action-oriented.
• Able to hire and develop A Players. You coach people in their current roles to improve performance and prepare them for future roles.
• A good communicator. You speak and write clearly and articulately without being overly verbose or talkative. You let others speak and seek to understand their viewpoints.
• Creative/ innovative. You generate new and innovative approaches to problems.
• You are able to convince others to pursue a course of action. You are a skilled facilitator and able to resolve conflicts when they occur.
• Ability to think and act strategically while also being hands-on
• Able to deliver on time with outstanding quality content
• Ambitious, dynamic and self-motivated
• Has good time management and organisation skills
• Accountable and strong-willed
• Ability to work in a small team (8-12 people) as well as work independently