Fullstack JavaScript Engineer - Cape Town at Basalt

What will you be responsible for:

• Developing front end website architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end services
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

What you bring to the team:

• You are friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.
• 5+ years programming experience in the Mern Stack ( React, Mongo, Express, Nodejs)
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases particularly MongoDB, and others.
• Experience developing web applications, with a good understanding of how the web works.
• Experience with unit testing, knowledge of applying test-driven development is beneficial.
• Understanding DevOps principals and how to apply them practically beneficial.
• Experience in cloud services preferred – AWS, Azure.
• Experience with containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) is highly beneficial.
• Familiarity with common programming design patterns and best practices.