Senior React Front End Engineer [Cape Town]

Network Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Network Recruitment in Cape Town CBD is seeking a Lead Frontend Architect to drive architecture decisions and establish best practices across patterns, tooling, and code quality. You will deliver complex, scalable UI features and collaborate on API design while upholding high testing standards and observability.

You will lead incident triage and performance optimisations, focusing on Core Web Vitals, accessibility and shared design systems to ensure consistency across experiences.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years frontend experience.
• Advanced React experience.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, Next.js.
• Cloud exposure.
• Microservices/Concurrency Exp.

Responsibilities

• Lead frontend architecture decisions and champion best practices.
• Design and deliver complex, scalable UI features by breaking down problems into maintainable components.
• Architect reliable client/server state management, caching and real-time update patterns, and collaborate on API design.
• Set testing standards, strengthen CI/CD, and improve observability and debugging.
• Optimize rendering performance, bundle size and Core Web Vitals while ensuring accessibility.
• Build scalable UI systems, evolve design systems, and ensure consistency across components and flows.
• Lead incident triage, deep debugging and root-cause analysis to improve reliability.

Skills

Frontend architecture

React

JavaScript

TypeScript

Next.js

CI/CD

Testing

Performance optimization

Accessibility

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Observability tooling

Job description

Lead frontâend architecture decisions, champion best practices, and drive consistency in patterns, tooling and code quality. Design and deliver complex, scalable userâfacing features, breaking down large problems into maintainable components. Architect reliable client/server state management solutions, define caching and realâtime update patterns, and collaborate effectively on API design. Uphold high-quality engineering by setting testing standards, strengthening CI/CD, and improving observability and debugging. Optimise performance across rendering, bundle size and Core Web Vitals, while ensuring strong accessibility and proactive improvements. Build scalable UI systems, evolve shared design systems, and maintain consistency across components, flows and user experiences. Lead incident triage, deep debugging and rootâcause analysis to improve reliability and resilience.

Requirements:

6-8 years front end experience Advanced React experience Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, Next.js Cloud exposure Microservices/Concurrency Exp

Please note the role is onsite in Cape Town CBD