Software Development Engineer (Front End) at Datafin Recruitment

Duties & Responsibilities
ENVIRONMENT:

Bring your love of all things front-end and natural affinity for JavaScript coding, to become the next Software Development Engineer (Front End), sought by a fast-growing E-Commerce platform to join its team. You will require a Degree in IT or Information Science, have 5+ years’ Front End development & your tech toolset should include HTML, CSS, Object Oriented Programming, AngularJS, React, Vue, Backbone, AJAX and be comfortable on the command line, locally and remotely (SSH) in a *nix-based environment.

DUTIES:

• Primary focus will be to implement front-end JavaScript coding at a senior level with a focus on performance, maintainability, and testable code.
• Your main duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional site. The design will be delivered to you, but you will work closely with the designers and back-end developers, and communicate primarily with the API using standard methods, as well as be expected to make modifications to the existing code.
• Apply best practice and ensure stability and security of the applications.

REQUIREMENTS:

Qualifications –

Degree in Information Technology or Science.
Experience/Skills/Attributes –

• Minimum 5+ years of experience as a Front-end Developer writing code.
• You have a natural affinity for well-structured HTML, CSS and JavaScript code and follow best practice to create responsive web front ends that deliver an experience that delights our customer.
• You're a passionate skilled JavaScript engineer, and will be part of a team responsible for the development of our customer facing mobile and desktop websites.
• Thorough understanding and experience with JavaScript coding and related frameworks and tools, HTML & CSS, Web Architecture, various caching layers and communication protocols between the different components.
• You have a desire to help design, develop and refine new features, brainstorm new ideas and concepts as well as locate and resolve bugs and crashes.
• You must be comfortable on the command line, locally and remotely (SSH) in a *nix-based environment.
• You are very proficient in coding plain JavaScript from scratch and understands inheritance in JavaScript and advanced JavaScript techniques.
• You appreciate and understand Object Oriented Programming concepts and have solid experience writing performant front-end code based on MVC JavaScript Frameworks such as AngularJS, React, Vue, Backbone, etc.
• You have a good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
• You know strategies and have experience to handle issues related to browser fragmentation, different screen sizes and OS.
• You have experience using a source control solution such as Git.

Nice to Have’s –

• Full stack experience of any sort is a huge plus!
• Sketch, Zeplin and Photoshop.
• Google Maps & Firebase.
• Experience with CSS precompilers such as Less or Sass.
• Experience with responsive and/or mobile first interfaces.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.