Full Stack - JavaScript Engineer at Sanlam Indie

Job description

We’re on a mission to help people navigate their way to financial freedom one step at a time.

Indie looks, feels and works like a startup, but has the backing and expertise of a leading South African insurance and investment giant - Sanlam. The Indie team is full of creative, collaborative people who think big, execute quickly and don’t take themselves too seriously. We’re building a diverse team of curious and creative people who want to find purpose in their work. If that sounds like you, we might be just the right fit.

We are looking for a full stack javascript developer to work on both our front end React applications and our NodeJS API’s.

Job requirements

Role and Responsibilities

• Be part of the team that is focused primarily on the acquisition and onboarding of new clients. 
• Expand on our existing NodeJS-driven APIs and create new ones as our product suite and third-party integrations expand.
• Help decide and plan which features we will build, and how they are architected and implemented.
• You will work closely with your team, which includes other software engineers, QA’s, product managers, our designers as well as members of the broader Sanlam Indie team.
• Testing your work, with as much automation as is useful.
• Making sure the code you’ve created can work in an AWS (containerised) environment.

Our Ideal Candidate

• You are highly proficient in JavaScript, Node, CSS, HTML and have extensive experience in front-end frameworks like React 
• You have the ability to work on your own, sometimes spearheading a new direction with minimal guidance
• You’re familiar with style guides, pattern libraries & design systems and writing modular, reusable code.
• You’re a thinker and can contribute to problem-solving design-oriented user experience issues.
• You have experience writing tests for JSON APIs
• You have experience in helping other developers improve the quality of their output and technical solutions.
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs and Web Services

What do we mean by a senior developer?

• You can handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end
• You lead others, or others look to you for guidance.
• You can self manage your projects
• The code you write is written with maintainability, simplicity and scalability in mind