We are looking for versatile front-end developers with ninja skills to develop exciting, creative, usable, beautiful and graphic intensive web and mobile apps for internal or our customers’ use. You will work with other software developers to design various applications that are efficient and consistent. You will also be responsible for creating innovative solutions to front end issues to help make our applications more visually appealing and enhance usability.
You will also be engaged in out of the box thinking to create new techniques to visualise data. Using bleeding edge technology, you will take ownership of the design, development and implementation of new applications.
If you enjoy what you do, we are looking forward to working with you.
Responsibilities
- Design a framework for creating apps that grows with the need of the company
- Develop features to enhance the user experience and build reusable code for future use and shared among front end applications
- Use a variety of mark-up languages to develop both web and mobile apps and also enhance applications for maximum speed and scalability
- Consistently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with team members (backend developers, product manager etc.) and other stakeholders on larger projects
- Understand and promote usability best practices
- Bridge the gap between graphic design and technical implementation
- Maintain brand, layout and graphic consistency throughout design
- Assist in the development of applications and features for both internal and external use
- Take ownership of the overall direction and architecture of the front-end, recommending whatever frameworks or libraries are relevant
- Shape the direction of the product by participating in feature scoping sessions
Nice to have:
- Experience working with of microservice architectures
- Experience in a peak performance organisation, preferably a tech startup
- Experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Enterprise software company experience
- Developer platform/tool industry experience
- Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a formal degree
- 4+ years hands-on web development experience and 2+ years hands-on mobile app development experience required
- Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, Dart and Bootstrap
- Hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks (React Native, ReactJS, VueJS, AngularJS, Node, ES6+)
- Experience in mobile development using any of these tools (Flutter, Ionic, React Native, Android Studio, XCode etc.)
- Experience in graphic design applications and mock up tools (Adobe Illustrator etc.)
- Experience with responsive and adaptive design
- Experience in one or more programming languages: Java, PHP, JavaScript/NodeJS, Python, C#, C++ etc.
- Experience using formal software management and source control tools (JIRA, Confluence, Git, SVN, Bitbucket etc.)
- Self-motivated, curious, creative and passionate about technology with the ability to learn new technologies as needed
- Strong communication skills, good interpersonal skills and ability to be a team player in an agile environment
- Experience in data visualisation and creating of dashboards is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organisation long-term
How To Apply For The Job | Front-End Developer Ninja at Kofa
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CLOSING DATE: 20th Oct, 2022.