JavaScript engineer - Cape Town, Johannesburg at BBD

BBD is looking for JavaScript engineers to assist with:

• Understanding requirements
• Identifying production and non-production application issues
• Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well-designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensuring designs follow specifications
• Raising concerns with design and identifying areas of improvement in the software delivery process
• Learning from those in your team while sharing your knowledge
• Staying on top of your game by knowing all the latest developments from a coding, methodology and approach perspective  
• Preparing and releasing into production
• Supporting continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and presenting these for architectural review
• Requirements
• JavaScript with a minimum of 4 years of solid exposure at a professional level
• Back-end service integration typically – REST Web Services: Node.js, Java, .NET, Go and Java EE
• Experience using Jira, Git and testing frameworks
• Ability to read and identify issues in back-end code in languages
• Must be based in South Africa, preferably Johannesburg or Cape Town

Tech skills required

• Web frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Svelte)
• HTML5 and CSS3
• Integrating with REST services
• Package management tools (NPM, Yarn)
• Unit testing frameworks (Jasmine, Jest)
• Mocking frameworks (WireMock)
• Web servers (Nginx, Apache)
• Understanding of application lifecycle, from development to deployment
• Browser debugging

Advantageous

• Full-stack engineer
• Docker and Kubernetes experience
• AWS experience / certification
• DevOps
• Automation tools (Cypress, Protractor, Selenium)
• Webpack
• SCSS, SASS
• Monorepo tooling (Nx, Lerna)