Jobs at Swing Development

Introduction
Swing’s Frontend Devs design, build and maintain frontend applications using the appropriate coding and scripting languages, content management tools and other related software applications. 

Duties & Responsibilities

• Work closely with a team of developers and designers building frontends for Silicon Valley startups.
• Care and fight for the end-user experience and contribute to raising the baseline of what is the UI/UX industry standard.
• Take ownership and responsibility  for what you do, the huge creative freedom and ability to influence the project allows for this
• Build relationships with Swing Dev developers in Poland,San Francisco, Cape Town and Brazil.

Desired Experience & Qualification
Requirements

• Bachelor Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or related fields,
• 7+ years of experience as Frontend Developer,
• Experience in React (other frameworks like Angular, Vue also possible, but React will be required at the end),
• Skilled in vanilla JavaScript (Es5 /6 / 7, Object Oriented Programming, Design Patterns),
• Familiarity with Git, front-end tools and bundlers,
• Good knowledge of CSS and CSS pre-processors,
• Independent problem solving, but also being an excellent team player,
• Good command of English (written & spoken),
• Commercial experience

Skills:

• Independent efficient problem solving, but also being an excellent team player
• Good command of English, written and spoken
• High attention to detail
• Strong ability to clearly communicate concepts and ideas to team members as well as clients

You will get extra points for:

• TypeScript, Flux knowledge,
• Backend technology knowledge (Node.js, Python, Java, C++),
• Familiarity with Docker / Kubernetes / AWS / deployment process,
• Experience in creating projects from scratch,
• State / data management patterns and solutions (Redux / Mobx),
• Knowledge of testing JavaScript code (Enzyme, Jest, Karma, Mocha, etc.),
• Knowledge how to make well-designed APIs.

Package & Remuneration

• Salary Range: R850,000 and R990,000 Total Cost per annum. 
• The salary offered to the candidate who successfully completes our Technical Screening and Coding Assessments will be commensurate to the level exertise displayed in these assessments

Benefits

• Working with US-based startups and Fortune 500 clients on demanding but at the same time rewarding projects,
• Non-corporate work environment
• Experienced PM and QA support
• Regular code reviews policy
• Trendy work space at Cape Town CBD and surrounds/JHB Office
• You will have a lot of chances to develop your programming skills as well as learn a lot about how tech business is done in the US
• International links with teams on 4 continents. 

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Introduction

• Swing’s Back-end devs are creative, analytical, driven and energetic
• in pursuit of designing and building scalable applications with focus on functionality,
• security and reliability of the tech stack

Duties & Responsibilities

• You'll be architecting and implementing backends and their interactions with various data stores and other APIs to enable cutting-edge SV startups to do what they do best.
• You'll be deploying your software using industry standard tooling like Kubernetes clusters, Lambda functions.
• You'll be expected to care deeply about security in everything you do and to constantly raise the baseline of how we defend our user's data against external threats and themselves. Your implementation will not end with your code, but with a container running in an environment.
• You'll be implementing robust automated test suites to ensure high quality and low failure rate of delivered code.
• You'll be working DevOps style to make sure Defence-in-Depth principles are followed and containers are as secure as humanly possible.
• You will have huge creative freedom and ability to influence the project, so you will take ownership and responsibility for what you do.
• Build relationships with Swing Dev developers in Poland, San Francisco, Cape Town and Brazil. 
• Design and develop new back-end services
• Focus on coding and debugging
• Build clean and structured code and libraries
• Research new tech that will benefit the team, project or client
• Integrate user facing elements developed

Desired Experience & Qualification
Skills:

•  Independent efficient problem solving, but also being an excellent team player
•  Good command of English, written and spoken
•  High attention to detail
•  Strong ability to clearly communicate concepts and ideas to team members as well as clients.

Requirements and Experience:

• Tertiary 3 year Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT 
•  Minimum 6 years working experience, with extensive expertise in at least one backend technology e.g. Java/.NET
•  Our core back-end stack is Node.js, solid Node experience is required, with 2 years coding in Node, preferably with Nest.js and Typscript
•  Good practical knowledge of at least one database system, e.g.
• PostgreSQL/MongoDB,
•  Experience in creating well-designed APIs,
•  Experience in utilising good security practices,
•  Readiness to learn and expand your skill set as required by ongoing projects

Experience in the following will be beneficial:

•  Proficiency in PostgreSQL or MongoDB,
•  Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes/AWS deployment processes,
•  Experience in creating projects from scratch,
•  Experience with profiling and performance optimisation
•  Experience in giving high quality feedback during code review,
•  Knowledge of testing JavaScript code (Jest/Mocha/Chai/CodeceptJS)
•  Automated software testing on unit/integration/end-to-end levels

Benefits
Benefits:

•  Working with US-based startups and Fortune 500 clients on demanding but at the same time rewarding projects
•  Non-corporate work environment
•  Experienced PM and QA support
•  Regular code reviews policy
•  Trendy work space
•  You will have a lot of chances to develop your programming skills as well as learn a lot about how tech business is done in the US
•  International links with teams on 4 continents.

Disclaimer

• Please note if you have not heard from us in 2 weeks from application, please consider yourself unsuccessful - please do continue to follow us online and apply for suitable roles.