Senior React Frontend Developer - Fully Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical & retirement benefits

Fully remote option

Professional development budget

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Frontend Developer specialized in React to join our Pretoria-based team with substantial remote work flexibility. You will build engaging, responsive interfaces and collaborate with design and backend engineering to translate requirements into high-quality user experiences.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of frontend experience, strong React expertise, and a passion for clean, maintainable code in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Web Development, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of professional frontend development experience.
• Expertise in React.js with Hooks and Context API.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3.
• Experience with state management libraries and build tools.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and asynchronous handling.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as Jest.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality, responsive user interfaces using React and related libraries.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers to translate wireframes into components.
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code.
• Optimize applications for speed, scalability, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Participate in code reviews, mentor junior frontend developers.
• Work with backend engineers to integrate frontend with APIs.

Skills

React.js

JavaScript

HTML/CSS

State management

Build tools

APIs

Testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Webpack

Vite

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Frontend Developer specialized in React to join our Pretoria-based team with substantial remote work flexibility. You will build engaging, responsive interfaces and collaborate with design and backend engineering to translate requirements into high-quality user experiences.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of frontend experience, strong React expertise, and a passion for clean, maintainable code in an agile environment.