Lead Front-End & Mobile Engineer

TravelLab Africa Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Travelstart in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Front-End & App Developer to own the customer-facing web and mobile experiences. You will work with Product, UX/UI and back-end teams to deliver intuitive, scalable digital experiences.

As a senior developer, you’ll shape technical decisions, drive quality, and help optimise performance, security and maintainability across web and mobile platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in modern front-end development and production mobile apps.
• Experience translating requirements into polished digital experiences.
• Familiarity with component-based architectures and modern frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and enhance responsive customer-facing web applications.
• Build and improve mobile applications across supported platforms.
• Translate product requirements and UX/UI designs into high-quality digital experiences.
• Build reusable front-end components and contribute to shared design patterns.
• Integrate apps with APIs, authentication, payments and other services.
• Ensure performance, accessibility and responsive design considerations.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

React Native

Flutter

HTML5/CSS

RESTful/GraphQL APIs

Git & CI/CD

Automated testing

Cloud basics

Education

Relevant CS/Software Engineering degree

Tools

AI tools awareness

Job description

Travelstart in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Front-End & App Developer to own the customer-facing web and mobile experiences. You will work with Product, UX/UI and back-end teams to deliver intuitive, scalable digital experiences.

As a senior developer, you’ll shape technical decisions, drive quality, and help optimise performance, security and maintainability across web and mobile platforms.