Frontend and Fullstack Developer
FullTime
Kenya,
Nairobi
Posted
22/03/2022,
2 years ago
Industry: Computer and information technology
Role: Information technology
Salary Range: Confidential
Closing: 15/04/2022
Client: Confidential
Our client is a young, agile, and dynamic B2B service provider for many large reputable companies within the technology, betting, and gaming industries. The company has a fast-paced multinational culture and a fantastic opportunity for stepping up in your career and becoming an instrumental part of the team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Working across a number of business areas providing development, maintenance, and support
- Work on projects that directly impact key business metrics
- Participate in or facilitate workshops and design thinking exercises to get your collaborators and stakeholders actively engaged in problem definition & problem-solving
- Improve web performance
- Recommend ways to improve the building, testing, and deployment processes for the front-end stack.
- Create interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize task flows
- Develop and maintain artifacts that express humanity, simplicity, and ingenuity in a range of fidelity—from napkin sketches to pixel-perfect designs
- Meet frequently in standups and grooming sessions with your engineers and product team
- Translate impulses, ideas, concepts into feasible but innovative output
- A working understanding of software engineering principles
- Demonstrable UI/UX decision skills for browser-based UI
- Proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality enterprise solutions over multiple product lifecycles
- Contribute to the implementation, architecture, and design of our industry-leading browser-based reporting and IT automation application
- Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
- Help identify probable causes and provide immediate solution during an incident
- Work within an agile environment following an agile framework.
- Contribute significant ideas for making the applications better and easier to use
- Participate in cutting edge research in artificial intelligence and machine learning applications.
- Contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organization to execution and delivery to solve complex, real-world engineering problems.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
- Has at least 3 - 5 years of experience in Frontend development using modern frameworks (React, Angular, Vue etc)
- Portfolio documenting recently achieved projects
- Good oral and written English communication skills
- Strong grasp of established and emerging technologies, systems, platforms, and software
- Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
- Technical curiosity - Willingness to explore and learn new technologies that are unfamiliar
- Ability to work in a fast-paced delivery oriented environment
- Ability to deliver short term results while investing in long term strategic solutions
- Self-starter, and Self-motivated and able to learn independently
- Team player who is eager to help others to succeed
- Past experience running experiments or A/B tests to test a product hypothesis
- Worked on data pipelines analyzing user behavior to inform business decisions
- Expertise in performance analysis and optimization of front-end applications
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g., responsiveness) with a Keen eye for pixel-level detail in UI
- Experience collaborating with UI/UX Designers
- Experience with Databases such as Mysql, Firebase or similar
- Understanding of data structures, data modelling and software architecture
- Deep knowledge of UI/UX design principles and industry standards
- Provide thought leadership on Web/Mobile UI experiences with ReactJS, Vue.js, AngularJS and Node JS. Familiarity with other JavaScript frameworks would be a plus.
- Strong HTML & CSS skills, with bonus points for experience with animation, knowledge of approaches to scalable/modular CSS, & preprocessors such as SCSS & LESS.
- Familiarity with client-side build processes & tools - Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Ember CLI etc
- Ability to work in a team
- Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience in multi-threading, message queues, WebSockets
- Experience with Cloud platforms such as Google cloud platform, AWS would be plus
- Good to have experience with automation of the development and test processes through CI/CD pipeline ( Git/version control workflows, Gitlab, SonarQube, Artifactory, Docker containers)
- Intermediate knowledge of API development
- Proving track record in building high performance, highly available and scalable systems