Remote Senior React Frontend Engineer

South Assistants; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 409,000 - 594,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive USD salary

Performance bonuses

21 paid leave days

Paid public holidays

Home-office setup stipend

Learning & development budget

Access to Kamva AI, Notetaker, Vault

Job summary

South Assistants seeks a frontend React developer to ship production work in clients’ repos, including landing pages, product UI and dashboards. You’ll work directly with client engineers, write clean PRs, and follow ESLint, tests and code-review standards.

You will collaborate on features end-to-end, engage in standups and planning, and work with REST/GraphQL APIs, while leveraging React, Next.js and Tailwind in a fully remote setup from South Africa.

Qualifications

• 2+ years shipping React in production.
• Proficient with Next.js, Tailwind CSS and modern frontend tooling.
• Fluent reading/writing of TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of accessibility, semantic HTML and responsive design.
• Able to read and write English clearly; comfortable with PR-based workflows.
• Experience with Git, GitHub and PR-based workflows.

Responsibilities

• Ship production React in client repos (landing pages, product UI, dashboards, marketing sites).
• Collaborate directly with client engineering teams and participate in standups, sprints and planning.
• Push PRs to GitHub/GitLab in line with client standards; write clear PR descriptions and tests where applicable.
• Own small features end-to-end and pair on larger ones as needed.
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs currently used by the client.

Skills

React

Next.js

Tailwind CSS

TypeScript

Accessibility

Semantic HTML

Responsive design

English communication

Tools

Git

GitHub

REST APIs

GraphQL APIs

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Supabase

Firebase

Webflow

Framer Motion

GSAP

Rive

Job description

South Assistants seeks a frontend React developer to ship production work in clients’ repos, including landing pages, product UI and dashboards. You’ll work directly with client engineers, write clean PRs, and follow ESLint, tests and code-review standards.

You will collaborate on features end-to-end, engage in standups and planning, and work with REST/GraphQL APIs, while leveraging React, Next.js and Tailwind in a fully remote setup from South Africa.