Senior Front-End Software Engineer

iKhokha; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 500 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech company in South Africa is looking for a Senior Front-End Software Engineer to enhance product quality and performance. You will work collaboratively in an Agile team, focusing on creating high-quality user interfaces from design concepts. The ideal candidate will have strong proficiency in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and experience in mentoring others. This full-time position offers a hybrid work environment and competitive benefits.

Benefits

Hybrid work model

Competitive remuneration

Medical Aid contributions

On-demand learning and development

Friendly collaborative culture

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in frontend technologies with a mentorship capability.
• Proficiency in modern animation techniques and performance optimization.
• Strong attention to detail in design translation to code and cross-browser compatibility.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain user interfaces in the FinTech space.
• Ensure engineering excellence in user-facing deliverables.
• Work in an Agile environment and mentor team members.

Skills

Advanced HTML5 and CSS

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Performance optimization

Micro-interactions

CSS animations

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

GitHub

Jest

VSCode

Figma

Job description

We're seeking a Senior Front-End Software Engineer who sets the bar for implementation excellence with a critical eye for detail polish and user experience quality.

Step into a role where your expertise will elevate our products challenge the status quo and set new benchmarks for whats possible in digital user interfaces.

So what will you do

• You will build new technologies and maintain existing systems within the FinTech space with a focus on delivering high-quality user interfaces that exceed standard implementation requirements.
• You will provide technical leadership with a critical eye for detail and polish ensuring engineering excellence in all user-facing deliverables.
• You will work in an Agile environment within a collaborative cross-functional team reporting to the Software Development Manager.
• You will develop polished user-facing features that exceed standard implementation quality translating Figma designs into high-quality interfaces using HTML5 CSS and attention to micro-interactions and visual details.

In addition to the above you will :

• Provide technical implementation feedback during design handoffs and development planning ensuring feasibility and suggesting enhancements that elevate the final product.
• Maintain high implementation standards across the engineering team with a critical eye for detail polish and user experience quality.
• Work effectively with Back-End Engineers to ensure seamless integration that performs as a single cohesive system.
• Mentor team members to develop both technical skills and attention to implementation quality fostering engineering excellence.
• Ensuring that code developed is of the highest standards through the adherence to Engineering Principles Pull Request Standards and Definitions of Done.
• Ensuring that development has sufficient Code coverage through the creation of Unit test.
• Ensuring that code adheres to Clean as you code standard.
• Creating reading maintaining interpreting updating and reviewing documentation.
• Ensuring that the team and stakeholders are communicated too effective and efficiently through Pull Requests Jira Tickets Slack and Confluence.
• Imparting valuable knowledge to the engineering team at large through knowledge sharing sessions.

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Deal Breakers

5 years experience in the following :

• High proficiency in with willingness to mentor others to excellence.
• Advanced HTML5 and CSS experience with knowledge of CSS animations transitions and keyframes and advanced knowledge in CSS techniques for polished implementations.
• Critical eye for polish and quality in user interface implementations as well as performance optimization for visual effects and animations.
• Experience with modern frontend animation techniques and micro-interactions with knowledge of modern animation libraries (Framer Motion GSAP Lottie).
• Proven ability to elevate standard implementations through technical excellence and attention to detail in areas like component library development and maintenance.
• Strong attention to detail in translating designs to code with high fidelity such as Figma-to-code translation and cross-browser compatibility and visual consistency.

In addition to the above the experience in the following technologies domains and best practices will make you a frontrunner for the role :

• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Rest API Integration
• Jest : Unit Testing framework
• VSCode / IntelliJ
• Working within an Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban methods.
• Experience with creating maintaining and reviewing documentation.
• Version Control experience whereby you have worked in Engineering Team (with developers of various levels) with a version control system such as GitHub.
• Development Environments experience whereby you have worked in Engineering Teams (with developers of various levels) within multiple environments for Development Testing and Production; including Branching Strategies.
• Experience with Technical Leadership whereby you have led a Software Engineering Team (with developers of various levels) and been involved in Technical Leadership Code Quality Code Standards Code Security System and Code Performance.
• Experience with leading and participating in Code Reviews for your own team as well as those in other teams.
• Experience mentoring teams toward higher implementation standards.Familiarity with design handoff processes and tools (Figma).
• Understanding of performance implications of visual enhancements.

Additional Information

Perks of joining the Tribe

• Work in a high-growth company with tangible results youre accountable for.
• Enjoy hybridremote and in officeworkmodels.
• Competitive remuneration and benefits including Medical Aid and Group Risk scheme contributions.
• Be guided by visionary leadership.
• Seize the opportunity for study leave.
• Access to on-demand learning and development.
• Experience a friendly collaborative culture with a team of all-round-lekker humans(its true we surveyed our Employees and they told us so).
• If you find yourselfat HQ coffee on tap and a selection of hot beveragesprovided by our very own onsite Barista.

Remote Work : Yes

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Bootstrap,CSS,Front-End Development,HTML5,React,Redux,Node.js,Angular,Less,JavaScript,backbone.js,Sass

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1