Senior Frontend (React) Engineer

Motorola Solutions; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in South Africa is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to design and develop microservices primarily in React. This role involves coding and collaborating with teams to ensure high performance and quality applications. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in React, strong JavaScript skills, and familiarity with modern front-end tools. The position offers a fully remote working setup from anywhere in South Africa.

Benefits

Guaranteed 13th Cheque

Annual Incentive Performance bonus

Discovery medical aid (50% coverage)

Old Mutual pension fund contribution

20 PTO days, 36 sick leave days

Employee Assistance Program

Educational assistance program

Free access to LinkedIn Learning courses

Qualifications

• Over 5 years of experience understanding React fundamentals.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript event handling and JSX.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and modern front-end development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop libraries and services using reusable code.
• Ensure the best possible application performance and quality.
• Collaborate with team members on different infrastructure layers.

Skills

React

JavaScript

HTML/CSS

APIs

WebSockets

Tools

Webpack

NPM

Job description

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people.

We're a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere.

Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that's critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses.

Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Motorola Solutions has recently acquired RapidDeploy Inc., and we're excited to welcome new talent to our growing team.

By applying for this role, you'll become part of the RapidDeploy team within the broader Motorola Solutions organization—where innovation meets impact in the world of Public Safety.

At RapidDeploy, our mission is to reduce emergency response times by equipping dispatchers and call-takers with real-time situational awareness through advanced tactical mapping, and by delivering powerful analytics to help public safety agencies optimize their operations.

Now, together with Motorola Solutions, we're accelerating our shared vision of creating safer communities through smarter technology.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our team.

Responsibilities will include building microservices (mainly Micro-frontends in React).

Your primary responsibilities will be to design and develop services and components on this stack, and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure.

A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and a thirst for elegant code is a must.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop libraries, components, and services, using efficient, reusable, secure, and reliable code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to solve these
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation (including test-automation)
• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable components and UI libraries for future use
• Translate designs and wireframes into high‑quality code
• Constant collaboration with other developers and product management

A passion to keep track of the latest modern trends

Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

Basic Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience and a complete understanding of React and its main fundamentals.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, object model, event handlers, JSX, and Babel
• Strong understanding of variables and scoping
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, HTML / CSS, ES6
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript design patterns
• Familiarity with Web / Shared / Service Workers
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Familiarity with micro frontend architecture
• Familiarity with WebSockets
• Familiarity with modern front‑end build pipelines and tools
• Familiarity with development pipelines and release management tools
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Tokens
• Experience with common front‑end development tools such as Webpack, NPM, etc.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization

Benefits

• In return for your expertise, we'll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way.
• Guaranteed 13th Cheque
• Annual Incentive Performance bonus
• Discovery medical aid, 50% of the package for you and your dependents covered by MSI
• Old Mutual pension fund (7,5% deducted from the base salary, MSI contributing with an equivalent of 10.5% of base salary on a monthly basis)
• 20 PTO days, 36 sick leave days in a 3‑year cycle (PTO entitlement increasing with the years of service)
• Family responsibility, compassionate and study leaves
• Employee Assistance Program - a confidential and free of charge hotline with professional counselling for our employees and their families
• Educational assistance program
• Free and unlimited access to all courses on LinkedIn Learning
• Fully Remote from any place in South Africa - set you up to work from home - laptop and accessories.

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

Company

Motorola Solutions South Africa (Proprietary) Limited

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally‑protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people‑first and community‑focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world.

If you'd like to join our team but feel that you don't quite meet all of the preferred skills, we'd still love to hear why you think you'd be a great addition to our team.