Front End Engineer at Turnkey Africa Kenya

Responsibilities

• Develop User interfaces for Modern Rich Internet Applications with the latest Front End Technologies
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services
• Desire to work in an Agile / SCRUM based delivery models
• Participate in software design reviews, code reviews, etc. to ensure solutions are designed to meet business needs

Skills and Qualifications

• Proficiency with JavaScript and HTML5
• Good understanding of AJAX and JavaScript Dom manipulation Techniques
• Experience with RESTful services
• Experience in JavaScript build tools like grunt or gulp
• Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules is required
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Ensuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file system
• Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS
• Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around $resource
• Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions
• Experience with jQuery
• Professional, precise communication skills
• BS degree in Computer Science or Related Field
• Extremely strong analytical and problem solving skills