Senior Software Engineer Job– Frontend, Latest IT Jobs In Kenya,

JOB TITLE:

Senior Software Engineer – Frontend.

This role is location agnostic; however, a candidate’s home time zone will be relevant to success in the role (GMT –1 to +3 preferred)

JOB DESCRIPTION:  

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our product teams in scaling our payments products in Africa. As a Senior Software Engineer, you work in a team that owns the design, development, and operations for mission-critical web applications of the payments business. You are responsible for developing frontend applications using Angular 9+ best practices.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Delivering complete features and maintaining existing ones.


• Work with the backend developer to define RESTful API Specifications.


• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components.


• Participating in Sprint Planning and tracking work items.


• Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results


• Ensure that all written code and architecture is high quality, scalable, and performance


• Take initiative in refactoring and keep things simple


• Take full ownership of a feature set, from the first discussion to going live.


• Using test-driven development to write well-tested code.


• Fixing bugs fast and taking your time to solve hard problems well.


• Prototyping new ideas to help with initial feature definition.


• Participating in architecture and code reviews.

Qualifications

Must have experience:

• 5+ years of industry experience building scalable web applications.


• 3y+ Experience with Angular 2+ on large-scale projects.


• Experience with HTML, CSS, Less, SASS, Javascript, and Typescript.


• Confidence with the unit and automated functional testing in Angular.


• Experience with CI/CD.


• Experience building cloud-native microservices and micro-frontends.


• Experience with OAuth and JWT tokens for authentication.


• Proven software architecture experience.


• Ability to understand and break down large features into complete solutions.


• Experience working with Vue JS and Angular JS.

Experience that will count in your favor: 

• Experience with performance analysis and optimization is a plus.


• You’ve mentored teammates on new ways to deepen their technical craft

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.

Personal attributes: 

• Proficient, autonomous, and rigorous behavior.


• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well with all levels of engineers and other disciplines.

How to Apply

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.