Remote Senior Frontend Engineer — Lead UI & Mentorship

Placements24; Sandton; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Remote work budget

Flexible hours

Conference attendance

Professional growth opportunities

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Frontend Developer to join our distributed engineering team, working remotely from anywhere. You will architect, develop, and maintain high-performance user interfaces for cutting-edge web apps, shaping the user experience and mentoring junior developers in a remote-first environment.

The role requires strong expertise in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, plus experience with React/Vue/Angular, RESTful APIs, state management, and build tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of frontend development experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement responsive interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, Angular).
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers and backend developers to translate concepts into code.
• Optimize web apps for speed, scalability, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Write clean, well-documented code and participate in code reviews.
• Mentor junior frontend developers and promote best practices.
• Troubleshoot frontend issues to ensure a high-quality user experience.

Skills

Frontend development

React/Vue/Angular

HTML/CSS/JS

RESTful APIs

State management

Code reviews

Remote collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or equivalent

Tools

Build tools

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Frontend Developer to join our distributed engineering team, working remotely from anywhere. You will architect, develop, and maintain high-performance user interfaces for cutting-edge web apps, shaping the user experience and mentoring junior developers in a remote-first environment.

The role requires strong expertise in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, plus experience with React/Vue/Angular, RESTful APIs, state management, and build tools.