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  • Posted: Jul 25, 2017
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Front End Developer

    Job description

    Showmax is looking for a highly creative and experienced front-end developer with a passion for problem-solving and a love of content to join our Africa team in Johannesburg.

    About the role :

    You will primarily be responsible for building the customer-facing side of the business, focusing on building custom marketing landing pages across objectives, partners, titles and audiences.

    You should be able to translate our company and customer needs into functional and appealing interactive applications.

    If you’re interested in creating user-friendly and highly engaging user environments by writing code and moving forward in your career in the crazy, wondrous, face-paced world that is Showmax, then this job is for you.

    We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to continuously combine usability with visual design.

    Ultimately, you should be able to create functional, attractive and engaging digital environments, ensuring great user experience and subsequent conversion.

    You don’t just write code, you make the digital magic happen. You make someone decide to keep going, to discover, to look further, to sign up, to subscribe. You need to be well versed in funnel analysis and optimisation as this will form part of your daily responsibility. You will work as a key component of the Acquisitions team for Africa and integrate with the in-house design, creative, development and content teams.

    Our requirements :

    As a front-end web developer, you have already experience with

    • Developing functional and appealing web- and mobile-based applications based on usability
    • Integrating seamlessly with the design, creative and development teams to ensure strongest possible outputs
    • Ongoing optimisation, maintenance and enhancements (content updates, A/B testing etc)
    • Using a combination of markup languages to write web pages
    • User interface, with CSS, HTML, JavaScript and jQuery
    • Writing functional requirement documents and specifications
    • Creating quality mockups and prototypes on tight timelines
    • Assisting back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting
    • Maintaining Showmax CI, graphic standards and branding throughout the product’s interface and across all digital marketing touchpoints
    • Staying up-to-date on emerging technologies and promote usability best practices, industry trends and content management systems, with an in-depth knowledge of web technologies
    • Understanding layout aesthetics and a rigour for programming as well as of the entire web development process, including design, development and deployment, with some back-end knowledge
    • Optimising applications for maximum speed
    • Designing mobile-based features, responsive and adaptive design
    • Collaborating closely with back-end developers and designers to improve usability
    • Funnel analysis and optimisation
    • Helping back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting
    • Solving problems and adapting quickly to new web design and application trends
    • Performing well in a fast-paced environment
    • Multitasking, with excellent analytical skills
    • BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to ShowMax on www.linkedin.com to apply

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