Our client based in Cape Town is looking for a highly talented Senior Front-end engineer to join our team in Cape Town.
They are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hardworking people to join them. They offer market related benefits, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
This position reports to the Shopfront Engineering Team Lead.
Bring your love of all things front-end and that desire to make the best experience for the customer. You’ll have a natural affinity for well structured html, css and javascript code that enables us to take our site to the next level, including a best practice responsive web front-end that delivers an experience that delights our customer.
You’re a passionate skilled Javascript engineer, and will be part of a team responsible for the development of our customer facing mobile and desktop websites. You have thorough understanding and experience with javascript coding and related frameworks and tools, html & css ,web architecture, various caching layers and communication protocols between the different components.
You will:
– Help design, develop and refine new features
– Locate and resolve bugs and crashes
– Brainstorm new ideas and concepts
– Work with teammates on design, code reviews, and estimationWe expect you to:
– Be accountable
– Creative
– Solution-based
– Flexible
– And take pride in your work
Your primary focus will be to implement front-end javascript coding at a senior level with a focus on performance, maintainability and testable code. Your main duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional site. The design will be delivered to you, but you will work closely with the designers and back-end developers, and communicate primarily with the API using standard methods, as well as be expected to make modifications to the existing PHP code.
If you’re all about closure, inheritance, binding, scope and ‘this’ – give us a shout.
Requirements
– A minimum of 5+ years of experience as a Front End Developer writing code
– Very proficient in coding plain JavaScript from scratch
– Understands inheritance in Javascript and advanced javascript techniques
– Appreciation and understanding of object oriented programming concepts
– Solid experience writing performant frontend code based on MVC JavaScript Frameworks (React is preferred, but AngularJS, Meteor, Backbone, etc. are a good start)
– Experience in XHTML, Html5, CSS and taking high definition designs/PSD’s and producing fast efficient HTML, Css and Javascript
– Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
– Knowledge and experience cross browser and cross device compatible solutions including for mobile
– Should have experience with CSS precompilers such as Less or Sass
– You should love doing this kind of stuff! Not afraid to try new things just to see how they work. Able to evaluate and learn new libraries, frameworks, concepts to validate whether they might be of value to our team
– Willing and able to mentor others.
– Experience using a source control solution such as Git
Desirable Skills
– 3 year computer science degree (or equivalent)
– PHP experience very desireable
– Linux experience
– React JS experience
– BackBone JS experience
– Experience writing front-end unit tests
– Full stack experience of any sort is a huge plus!
– Has worked within an agile development team using scrum/kanban
– Experience producing responsive html designs
If you are interested in this position, please feel free to send your CV to (email address)